Enterar

Enterar is a Spanish verb with two principal meanings. In its pronominal form enterarse, it means to find out or to become aware of something, often followed by de and a clause or noun: Me enteré de la noticia; No me enteré de nada. The non-pronominal form enterar is transitive and means to inform someone about something, usually with a de phrase: El director enteró a los empleados de la nueva política.

Usage and constructions:

- Enterarse de something (Me enteré de la decisión; ¿Ya te enteraste de qué pasó?). The phrase can introduce a new information or event and commonly appears in tenses that describe discovery or awareness.

- Enterar a alguien de something (Ella enteró a su equipo de los cambios). This use is more formal or literary than simplemente informar.

- Me enteré de que… or No me enteré de nada. Subordinate clauses with que are common: Me enteré de que cancelaron el vuelo.

Grammatical notes:

- Enterarse has a reflexive form used for the sense of becoming aware. The participle enterado/enterada exists as an adjective meaning "informed."

- Conjugation generally follows regular -ar patterns for non-reflexive uses, and the reflexive form adapts the standard -ar endings accordingly. Common tenses include me enteré (preterite), me entero (present), me enteraría (conditional), and me he enterado (present perfect).

Semantic relation:

- Syntactically, enterar translates to “to learn/of finding out” in the pronominal sense and to “to inform” in the transitive sense.

- It is closely related to synonyms like saber, descubrir, or informar, though enterar emphasizes the moment of obtaining or conveying specific information.