churruscar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃurusˈkaɾ/ [t͡ʃu.rusˈkaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: chu‧rrus‧car
Verb
churruscar (first-person singular present churrusco, first-person singular preterite churrusqué, past participle churruscado)
- to crisp, burn, frazzle
- 2015 November 15, “Columna”, in El País:
- Aunque, ya digo, faltan unos hombrecillos de Magritte un poco churruscados, al modo del pescaíto frito.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of churruscar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | churruscar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | churruscando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | churruscado | churruscada | |||||
| plural | churruscados | churruscadas | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | churrusco | churruscastú churruscásvos | churrusca | churruscamos | churruscáis | churruscan | |
| imperfect | churruscaba | churruscabas | churruscaba | churruscábamos | churruscabais | churruscaban | |
| preterite | churrusqué | churruscaste | churruscó | churruscamos | churruscasteis | churruscaron | |
| future | churruscaré | churruscarás | churruscará | churruscaremos | churruscaréis | churruscarán | |
| conditional | churruscaría | churruscarías | churruscaría | churruscaríamos | churruscaríais | churruscarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | churrusque | churrusquestú churrusquésvos2 | churrusque | churrusquemos | churrusquéis | churrusquen | |
| imperfect (ra) | churruscara | churruscaras | churruscara | churruscáramos | churruscarais | churruscaran | |
| imperfect (se) | churruscase | churruscases | churruscase | churruscásemos | churruscaseis | churruscasen | |
| future1 | churruscare | churruscares | churruscare | churruscáremos | churruscareis | churruscaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | churruscatú churruscávos | churrusque | churrusquemos | churruscad | churrusquen | ||
| negative | no churrusques | no churrusque | no churrusquemos | no churrusquéis | no churrusquen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Further reading
- “churruscar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014