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medir

/meˈdiɾ/, [meˈð̞iɾ]

measure, to size

Gerund: midiendo

Past Participles

  Masculine Feminine
Singular medido medida
Plural medidos medidas

Indicative

  Present Imperfect Preterite Future Conditional
yo mido medía medí mediré mediría
tú mides medías mediste medirás medirías
él/ella/Ud. mide medía midió medirá mediría
nosotros medimos medíamos medimos mediremos mediríamos
vosotros medís medíais medisteis mediréis mediríais
ellos/ellas/Uds. miden medían midieron medirán medirían
vos medís medías mediste medirás medirías

Subjunctive

  Present Imperfect (ra) Imperfect (se) Future
yo mida midiera midiese midiere
tú midas midieras midieses midieres
él/ella/Ud. mida midiera midiese midiere
nosotros midamos midiéramos midiésemos midiéremos
vosotros midáis midierais midieseis midiereis
ellos/ellas/Uds. midan midieran midiesen midieren
vos midás midieras midieses midieres

Imperative

  Affirmative Negative
yo    
tú mide no midas
Ud. mida no mida
nosotros midamos no midamos
vosotros medid no midáis
Uds. midan no midan
vos medí no midas

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

Examples

  • Queremos medir tu presión sanguínea.

    We want to measure your blood pressure.

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  • Él se debe medir la presión sanguínea todos los días.

    He has to have his blood pressure taken every day.

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  • Me pregunto cómo un gobierno podría medir la felicidad nacional bruta.

    I wonder how a government would go about measuring gross national happiness.

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  • El termómetro es un instrumento para medir la temperatura.

    The thermometer is an instrument for measuring temperature.

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  • Para medir el grosor de los alambres hay que usar calibradores.

    Gauges are used to measure the thickness of wire.

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  • Hay que medir la velocidad del viento con exactitud.

    The wind must be gauged accurately.

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  • Déjame medir tu presión sanguínea.

    Let me take your blood pressure.

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  • La belleza no se puede medir objetivamente, sino que depende de criterios estéticos personales.

    Beauty cannot be determined objectively but depends on personal aesthetic criteria.

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  • Las opiniones sostenidas con pasión son siempre aquellas para las que no existen buenos argumentos; de hecho, la pasión es la forma de medir la falta de convicción de la persona que la sostiene. En política y religión, las opiniones casi siempre se sostienen apasionadamente.

    The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

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  • Lo que queremos hacer es medir el nivel de aceite.

    What we want to do next is check the oil level.

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