# assentar
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ə.sənˈta]
* IPA: (Valencia) [a.senˈtaɾ]

### Verb

assentar (first-person singular present assento, first-person singular preterite assentí, past participle assentat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/
* to settle, to set up

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | infinitive | infinitive | assentar | assentar | assentar | assentar | assentar |
| gerund | gerund | gerund | assentant | assentant | assentant | assentant | assentant |
| past participle | past participle | | | masculine | masculine | feminine | feminine |
| past participle | past participle | singular | singular | assentat | assentat | assentada | assentada |
| past participle | past participle | plural | plural | assentats | assentats | assentades | assentades |
| person | person | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| person | person | first | second | third | first | second | third |
| indicative | | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè | nosaltres nós | vosaltres vós | ells/elles vostès |
| indicative | present | assento | assentes | assenta | assentem | assenteu | assenten |
| indicative | imperfect | assentava | assentaves | assentava | assentàvem | assentàveu | assentaven |
| indicative | future | assentaré | assentaràs | assentarà | assentarem | assentareu | assentaran |
| indicative | preterite | assentí | assentares | assentà | assentàrem | assentàreu | assentaren |
| indicative | conditional | assentaria | assentaries | assentaria | assentaríem | assentaríeu | assentarien |
| subjunctive | | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè | nosaltres nós | vosaltres vós | ells/elles vostès |
| subjunctive | present | assenti | assentis | assenti | assentem | assenteu | assentin |
| subjunctive | imperfect | assentés | assentessis | assentés | assentéssim | assentéssiu | assentessin |
| imperative | | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós | vostès |
| imperative | affirmative | — | assenta | assenti | assentem | assenteu | assentin |
| imperative | negative (no) | — | no assentis | no assenti | no assentem | no assenteu | no assentin |

#### Derived terms

* assentament

### Further reading

* “assentar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “assentar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
* “assentar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “assentar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese assentar, asentar, from Vulgar Latin *adsedentāre, from Latin ad + sedentāre, or constructed in Old Portuguese as a- +‎ sentar (“to sit”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /a.sẽˈta(ʁ)/ [a.sẽˈta(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /a.sẽˈta(ʁ)/ [a.sẽˈta(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /a.sẽˈta(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /a.sẽˈta(ʁ)/ [a.sẽˈta(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /a.sẽˈta(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.sẽˈtaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.sẽˈtaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ɐ.sẽˈta.ɾi/

### Verb

assentar (first-person singular present assento, first-person singular preterite assentei, past participle assentado, short past participle assente)
* to seat
* to register
* to settle; to determine; to decide

#### Usage notes

In Brazil, the verb may be treated as having a regular past participle; speakers might use assentado in all cases. This is considered nonstandard, however.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Usually used with auxiliary verbs ser and estar. $^2$Usually used with auxiliary verbs haver and ter. $^3$Brazilian Portuguese. $^4$European Portuguese.