tatuar

In a sentence

• La Maria vol tatuar-se un disseny de flors al braç.

  Maria wants to tattoo a flower design on her arm.

  Here, 'tatuar' is used reflexively ('tatuar-se') to indicate that Maria intends to get a tattoo on herself.

• El tatuador està tatueant un client en aquest moment.

  The tattoo artist is tattooing a client at the moment.

  In this sentence, 'tatuar' is used in the present progressive tense to describe the action of tattooing being performed by the tattoo artist.

• El meu germà no es tatuaria mai, no li agrada portar marques permanents.

  My brother would never get a tattoo; he doesn’t like having permanent marks.

  Here, 'tatuar' is used in a conditional negative reflexive form ('no es tatuaria') to express a hypothetical action that the subject would not do.