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significar

/siɡnifiˈkaɾ/, [siɣ̞.ni.fiˈkaɾ]

mean, to mean

Gerund: significando

Past Participles

  Masculine Feminine
Singular significado significada
Plural significados significadas

Indicative

  Present Imperfect Preterite Future Conditional
yo significo significaba signifiqué significaré significaría
tú significas significabas significaste significarás significarías
él/ella/Ud. significa significaba significó significará significaría
nosotros significamos significábamos significamos significaremos significaríamos
vosotros significáis significabais significasteis significaréis significaríais
ellos/ellas/Uds. significan significaban significaron significarán significarían
vos significás significabas significaste significarás significarías

Subjunctive

  Present Imperfect (ra) Imperfect (se) Future
yo signifique significara significase significare
tú signifiques significaras significases significares
él/ella/Ud. signifique significara significase significare
nosotros signifiquemos significáramos significásemos significáremos
vosotros signifiquéis significarais significaseis significareis
ellos/ellas/Uds. signifiquen significaran significasen significaren
vos signifiqués significaras significases significares

Imperative

  Affirmative Negative
yo    
tú significa no signifiques
Ud. signifique no signifique
nosotros signifiquemos no signifiquemos
vosotros significad no signifiquéis
Uds. signifiquen no signifiquen
vos significá no signifiques

Source: Wiktionary available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

Examples

  • "Literalmente", literalmente, puede significar "metafóricamente". El que "literal" signifique "metafórico" es también una literal ironía.

    "Literally" can literally mean "metaphorically". "Literal" meaning "metaphorical" is also a literal irony.

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  • Tenemos que distinguir lo que una oración podría significar, de lo que realmente significa cuando la usa un locutor en particular, en una ocasión particular.

    We need to distinguish what a sentence could mean from what it actually does mean when used by one particular speaker on one particular occasion.

    Source

  • ¿Qué más podría significar?

    What else could it mean?

    Source

  • Una guerra nuclear puede significar el fin de la humanidad.

    A nuclear war would mean the fall of humankind.

    Source

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