agradecer

agradecer

1. to thank; to give thanks

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From a- +‎ grado +‎ -ecer.

• Hyphenation: a‧gra‧de‧cer

agradecer (first-person singular present agradeço, first-person singular preterite agradeci, past participle agradecido)

1. to thank
2. to be grateful for
3. inflection of agradecer:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

• desagradecer

• agradecimento

From Old Spanish agradesçer, equivalent to a- +‎ grado (“will; liking, preference”) +‎ -ecer. Cognate with Catalan agrair.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aɡɾadeˈθeɾ/ [a.ɣ̞ɾa.ð̞eˈθeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /aɡɾadeˈseɾ/ [a.ɣ̞ɾa.ð̞eˈseɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: a‧gra‧de‧cer

agradecer (first-person singular present agradezco, first-person singular preterite agradecí, past participle agradecido)

1. (transitive) to thank

   Le agradecí mucho su ayuda.

   I thanked him very much for his help.

   Antonym: desagradecer

2. (transitive) to be grateful for

   Antonym: desagradecer

• “agradecer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014