enfeinar
Catalan
Alternative forms
- afaenar
Verb
enfeinar (first-person singular present enfeino, first-person singular preterite enfeiní, past participle enfeinat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencian) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/
- (transitive) to load with work; to swamp
- 2020 June 22, Francesc de Carreras, “La política infantil”, in El País:
- Al Govern li havien canviat les preguntes i, com és obvi, no tenia preparades les respostes. Estava enfeinat en altres coses. Començava a viure en la nova realitat.
- The Government was asked new questions and obviously hadn't prepared answers to them. It was too busy with other things. It started to live in the new reality.
Conjugation
Further reading
- “enfeinar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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