How to Say "to exhume" in Spanish
The Spanish word for “to exhume” is “desenterrar” — B1 level.
Examples
El perro desenterró un hueso viejo en el jardín.
The dog dug up an old bone in the garden.
Los arqueólogos desenterraron una ciudad perdida.
The archaeologists unearthed a lost city.
Tuvieron que desenterrar los cables para repararlos.
They had to dig up the cables to repair them.
The 'E' to 'IE' Change
In the present tense, the 'e' in the middle changes to 'ie' when you stress that syllable (yo desentierro), but stays as 'e' when the stress moves to the end (nosotros desenterramos).
Undoing with 'Des-'
The prefix 'des-' works like the English 'un-'. Since 'enterrar' means to bury, 'desenterrar' means to 'un-bury'.
Forgetting the Stem Change
Mistake: “Yo desenterro el tesoro.”
Correction: Yo desentierro el tesoro. Remember the vowel change happens in all forms except 'nosotros' and 'vosotros'.
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