encarezco

Encarezco is the first-person singular present indicative form of the Spanish verb encarecer. The word’s basic meaning is to raise the price of something or to make it more expensive. It is used transitively to indicate that someone or something causes higher costs: “La subida de impuestos encarece los productos básicos.” It is also used in its pronominal form encarecerse to describe a general increase in prices or costs: “Con la inflación, la vida se encarece.”

Encarecimiento is the noun for the process or result of price increases; encarecido/encarecida are adjectives describing goods that have become expensive. The term is common in economic, commercial, and policy contexts, and appears in journalism about inflation, taxation, and market regulation. In everyday speech, encarecerse or encarecer with a direct object is typically preferred to the explicit subject yo encarezco. Conjugation follows the standard pattern for -cer verbs: present yo encarezco, tú encareces, él encarece, nosotros encarecemos, vosotros encarecéis, ellos encarecen; preterite encarecí, encareciste, encareció, encarecimos, encarecisteis, encarecieron; imperfect encarecía, encarecías, encarecía, encarecíamos, encarecíais, encarecían.