¿Cuál es la conjugación de eat en inglés? ¿Cuáles son las definiciones de este verbo? ¿A qué sinónimos, expresiones y phrasal verbs se asocia?
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Tablas de conjugación de eat en inglés
Conjugación del verbo eat en indicativo
Verbo eat en present simple
- I eat
- You eat
- He/she/it eats
- We eat
- You eat
- They eat
Verbo eat en present continuous
- I am eating
- You are eating
- He/she/it is eating
- We are eating
- You are eating
- They are eating
Verbo eat past simple
- I ate
- You ate
- He/she/it ate
- We ate
- You ate
- They ate
Verbo eat en past continuous
- I was eating
- You were eating
- He/she/it was eating
- We were eating
- You were eating
- They were eating
Verbo eat en present perfect
- I have eaten
- You have eaten
- He/she/it has eaten
- We have eaten
- You have eaten
- They have eaten
Verbo eat en present perfect continuous
- I have been eating
- You have been eating
- He/she/it has been eating
- We have been eating
- You have been eating
- They have been eating
Verbo eat en past perfect
- I had eaten
- You had eaten
- He/she/it had eaten
- We had eaten
- You had eaten
- They had eaten
Verbo eat enpast perfect continuous
- I had been eating
- You had been eating
- He/she/it had been eating
- We had been eating
- You had been eating
- They had been eating
Verbo eat en future
- I will eat
- You will eat
- He/she/it will eat
- We will eat
- You will eat
- They will eat
Verbo eat en future continuous
- I will be eating
- You will be eating
- He/she/it will be eating
- We will be eating
- You will be eating
- They will be eating
Verbo eat en future perfect
- I will have eaten
- You will have eaten
- He/she/it will have eaten
- We will have eaten
- You will have eaten
- They will have eaten
Verbo eat en future perfect continuous
- I will have been eating
- You will have been eating
- He/she/it will have been eating
- We will have been eating
- You will have been eating
- They will have been eating
Conjugación del verbo eat en condicional
Verbo eat en conditional present
- I would eat
- You would eat
- He/she/it would eat
- We would eat
- You would eat
- They would eat
Verbo eat en conditional present continuous
- I would be eating
- You would be eating
- He/she/it would be eating
- We would be eating
- You would be eating
- They would be eating
Verbo eat en conditional perfect
- I would have eaten
- You would have eaten
- He/she/it would have eaten
- We would have eaten
- You would have eaten
- They would have eaten
Verbo eat en conditional perfect continuous
- I would have been eating
- You would have been eating
- He/she/it would have been eating
- We would have been eating
- You would have been eating
- They would have been eating
Otras formas
El infinitivo de eat
- to eat
Participio presente de eat
- eating
Participio pasado de eat
- eaten
El imperativo de eat
- eat
- let’s eat
Al igual que to drive, to come, to tell, to run y to know, to eat es un verbo irregular. Por eso hay que prestar especial atención a las terminaciones en pasado.
Definición de eat en inglés
¿Qué significa el verbo eat en inglés?
El Cambridge Dictionary ofrece varias definiciones del verbo eat.
Veamos las principales:
1. To put or take food into the mouth, chew it, and swallow it
Vegetarians don’t eat meat.
→ Los vegetarianos no comen carne.
2. To damage or destroy something
The substance has eaten into the concrete.
→ La sustancia erosionó el cemento.
Para consultar la página completa del Cambridge Dictionary, haz clic aquí.
Los phrasal verbs con eat en inglés
Recordatorio: los phrasal verbs ( o “verbos con partícula”) son verbos que, al ir seguidos de otra palabra (la partícula), completan o modifican su significado original.
Existen tres phrasal verbs formados a partir del verbo eat:
- eat away at somebody/something→ roer, devorar (en sentido figurado, como una preocupación, por ejemplo)
- eat in → comer en casa
- eat into something → gastar parte de (en sentido figurado, como de un presupuesto, por ejemplo).
- eat out → comer fuera, ir a un restaurante
- eat something away → corroer
- eat something up → devorar, engullir
- eat up → acabarse el plato, vaciar el plato (coloquial).
Sinónimos de eat en inglés
Dependiendo del contexto, puedes sustituir el verbo to eat por uno de los siguientes verbos:
- banquete → darse un banquete
- bite → morder (un alimento)
- breakfast → desayunar
- chew → mascar, masticar
- devour → devorar, engullir
- dine → cenar
- gorge → atiborrarse (coloquial)
- gormandize → comer con avidez
- graze → picar (coloquial)
- ingest → ingerir
- lunch → comer
- munch → comer ruidosamente
- nibble → mordisquear
- nosh → comer, papear (coloquial).
- pick → picar, picotear
- scarf → engullir
- scoff → zampar (coloquial)
- snack → picar
- sup → sorber (término muy anticuado).
- swallow → tragar
- wolf → devorar, engullir
Expresiones con eat en inglés
- all-you-can-eat (adjetivo) → bufet libre
- dog eat dog → sálvese quien pueda
- eat crow (inglés americano) → admitir un error (coloquial)
- eat dirt → morder el polvo (coloquial)
- eat high off the hog → llevar buena vida
- eat humble pie (inglés británico) → comerse las palabras (coloquial).
- eat like a bird → comer como un pajarito
- eat like a horse → comer como un cerdo
- comer de la mano de alguien → comer de la mano de alguien (en sentido figurado).
- eat your fill → comer hasta la saciedad
- eat your words → retractarse
- eat, drink and be merry → disfrutar de la vida
- have your cake and eat it → quiere nadar y guardar la ropa
- safe to eat (adjetivo) → sin riesgo para la salud (para los alimentos)
