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fructificar

to bear fruit

verb frook-tee-fee-KAHR Rare
Animals & Nature Plants

Origin: From Latin fructificare, from fructus (fruit) + facere (to make).

Also means

to be fruitful

Usage Note

Fructificar is used both literally (trees or plants bearing fruit) and figuratively (efforts, investments, or ideas yielding results): el trabajo fructificó ('the work paid off'). Like other verbs ending in -car, the spelling shifts to -qu- before -e: fructifiqué. The related adjective is fructífero (fruitful).

Examples

"Los esfuerzos del equipo empezaron a fructificar."

Natural Translation

The team's efforts began to bear fruit.

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