tatuar

This is the 11181st most frequent Catalan word.


tatuar

To tattoo.


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

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

Maria wants to tattoo a flower design on her arm.


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

El tatuador està tatueant un client en aquest moment.

The tattoo artist is tattooing a client at the moment.


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

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.