culminó

Culminó is a verb form in Spanish, specifically the third-person singular of the pretérito perfecto simple (preterite) of the verb culminar. It denotes that a process, event, or action reached its peak or final point and was completed in the past. As a past tense form, culmó refers to he, she, or it as the subject.

Etymology and meaning: culminar comes from the Latin culmen, culmen meaning summit or top, with the suffix -are forming the verb. The related noun culminación refers to the act or result of reaching a culmination. The base ideas encompass completion, conclusion, and attaining the highest point of a sequence or goal.

Conjugation and usage: in addition to culminó, the verb culminar is conjugated in the pretérite simple as culminé (yo), culminaste (tú), culminó (él/ella/usted), culminamos (nosotros/as), culminasteis (vosotros/as), culminaron (ellos/ellas/ustedes). Culminó is used to describe completed past actions and can function both transitively and intransitively. It often appears with prepositions or complement phrases such as culminó en un acuerdo, culminó con una victoria, or culminó un proyecto. The choice of construction depends on whether one emphasizes the end result (en, con) or the completion of the activity (culminar un proyecto).

Examples: "La exposición culminó con la inauguración de una nueva sala." "El año escolar culminó en junio." Register and usage are common in formal, journalistic, and narrative contexts.

Notes: Culminó is a standard, widely understood form in Spanish and reflects the broader concept of reaching a conclusion or peak within a sequence of events.