Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈaɡwa/ , [ˈa.ɣ̞wa]
Rhymes: -aɡwa
Hyphenation: a‧gua
Noun
agua f (uncountable )
water
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈaɡwa/
Rhymes: -aɡwa
Syllabification: a‧gua
References
Valeš, Miroslav (2021 ) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web) , 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022 , →ISBN
Apuntes socio-históricos y lingüísticos sobre a Fala do Val de Xalima
Noun
agua f
water
Como deꝯ fez uỹo dagua [ …] Just as God turned water into wine [ …]
Noun
agua f ( plural aguas )
water
c. 1200 , Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar , f. 5v. b.
Vino ioſep aſos ermanos. e priſierõ le & deſpoiarõle el palio. e echarōle en el pozo. & este pozo era bazio e no yauia agua . Joseph came to this brothers; they imprisoned him and unclothed him and threw him into the well, and this well was empty and had no water.
Idem , f. 13v. b.
Tornarõ ſe todas las aguas ẽ ſãgre. And all of the waters turned into blood.
Descendants
Ladino: agua / אגוה
Spanish: agua ( see there for further descendants )
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Agua
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈaɡwa/ [ˈa.ɣ̞wa]
Rhymes: -aɡwa
Syllabification: a‧gua
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish agua , from Latin aqua (compare Catalan aigua , French eau , Galician auga , Italian acqua , Occitan aiga , Portuguese água , Romanian apă , Sardinian abba ), from Proto-Indo-European * h₂ekʷeh₂ . See English ea .
Noun
agua f (plural aguas )
water
Quiere un vaso de agua fresca. He wants a glass of cold water .
body of water
Synonym: cuerpo de agua
rain
Synonyms: lluvia , aguacero
( archaic ) river , stream
Synonyms: río , arroyo
( slang , in the plural ) urine
Synonym: orina
( Guatemala ) pop , soda ( soft drink )
Synonyms: soda , ( Chile ) bebida , ( El Salvador, Spain ) gaseosa , ( Mexico ) refresco
Voy a comprar algo de agua . I'm gonna buy some pop .
Deme agua Pepsi. Give me Pepsi (soda ).
( Latin America ) infusion
Synonym: infusión
Usage notes
Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un , usually reserved for masculine nouns.
el agua, un agua
They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.
In Guatemala, since agua prototypically refers to a soft drink, the phrase agua pura is used to refer to water.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
-agua (infinitive kuagua )
to divine , foretell , predict
Conjugation
More information Conjugation of, Positive present ...
Conjugation of -agua
Positive present
-na agua
Subjunctive
-ague
Negative
-agui
Imperative singular
agua
Infinitives
Positive
kuagua
Negative
kutoagua
Imperatives
Singular
agua
Plural
agueni
Tensed forms
Habitual
huagua
Positive past
positive subject concord + -li agua
Negative past
negative subject concord + -ku agua
Positive present (positive subject concord + -na agua)
Singular
Plural
1st person
ni naagua/na agua
tu naagua
2nd person
u naagua
m naagua
3rd person
m-wa(I/II)
a naagua
wa naagua
other classes
positive subject concord + -na agua
Negative present (negative subject concord + -agui )
Singular
Plural
1st person
si agui
hatu agui
2nd person
hu agui
hamw agui
3rd person
m-wa(I/II)
ha agui
hawa agui
other classes
negative subject concord + -agui
Positive future
positive subject concord + -ta agua
Negative future
negative subject concord + -ta agua
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -ague )
Singular
Plural
1st person
ni ague
tu ague
2nd person
u ague
mw ague
3rd person
m-wa(I/II)
a ague
wa ague
other classes
positive subject concord + -ague
Negative subjunctive
positive subject concord + -si ague
Positive present conditional
positive subject concord + -nge agua
Negative present conditional
positive subject concord + -singe agua
Positive past conditional
positive subject concord + -ngali agua
Negative past conditional
positive subject concord + -singali agua
Perfect
positive subject concord + -me agua
"Already"
positive subject concord + -mesha agua
"Not yet"
negative subject concord + -ja agua
"If/When"
positive subject concord + -ki agua
"If not"
positive subject concord + -sipo agua
Consecutive
kaagua / positive subject concord + -ka agua
Consecutive subjunctive
positive subject concord + -ka ague
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.
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