coquear
Spanish
Verb
coquear (first-person singular present coqueo, first-person singular preterite coqueé, past participle coqueado)
- (Latin America) to chew coca leaves
- (Nicaragua) to put on one's thinking cap; to get thinking
- 2018 June 21, “Monimbó en el corazón de Carlos Mejía Godoy”, in El Nuevo Diario:
- Entonces cuando empezaron estos sucesos, inicié a coquear, agarré la página en blanco y puse una sola palabra: “Monimbó siempre con vos” como una manera de decir han pasado 40 años, pero aquí sigo firme con vos, entonces, empecé a pensar en la letra y música.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of coquear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | coquear | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | coqueando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | coqueado | coqueada | |||||
| plural | coqueados | coqueadas | |||||
| 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 | coqueo | coqueastú coqueásvos | coquea | coqueamos | coqueáis | coquean | |
| imperfect | coqueaba | coqueabas | coqueaba | coqueábamos | coqueabais | coqueaban | |
| preterite | coqueé | coqueaste | coqueó | coqueamos | coqueasteis | coquearon | |
| future | coquearé | coquearás | coqueará | coquearemos | coquearéis | coquearán | |
| conditional | coquearía | coquearías | coquearía | coquearíamos | coquearíais | coquearían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | coquee | coqueestú coqueésvos2 | coquee | coqueemos | coqueéis | coqueen | |
| imperfect (ra) | coqueara | coquearas | coqueara | coqueáramos | coquearais | coquearan | |
| imperfect (se) | coquease | coqueases | coquease | coqueásemos | coqueaseis | coqueasen | |
| future1 | coqueare | coqueares | coqueare | coqueáremos | coqueareis | coquearen | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | coqueatú coqueávos | coquee | coqueemos | coquead | coqueen | ||
| negative | no coquees | no coquee | no coqueemos | no coqueéis | no coqueen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of coquear
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| with infinitive coquear | |||||||
| dative | coquearme | coquearte | coquearle, coquearse | coquearnos | coquearos | coquearles, coquearse | |
| accusative | coquearme | coquearte | coquearlo, coquearla, coquearse | coquearnos | coquearos | coquearlos, coquearlas, coquearse | |
| with gerund coqueando | |||||||
| dative | coqueándome | coqueándote | coqueándole, coqueándose | coqueándonos | coqueándoos | coqueándoles, coqueándose | |
| accusative | coqueándome | coqueándote | coqueándolo, coqueándola, coqueándose | coqueándonos | coqueándoos | coqueándolos, coqueándolas, coqueándose | |
| with informal second-person singular tú imperative coquea | |||||||
| dative | coquéame | coquéate | coquéale | coquéanos | not used | coquéales | |
| accusative | coquéame | coquéate | coquéalo, coquéala | coquéanos | not used | coquéalos, coquéalas | |
| with informal second-person singular vos imperative coqueá | |||||||
| dative | coqueame | coqueate | coqueale | coqueanos | not used | coqueales | |
| accusative | coqueame | coqueate | coquealo, coqueala | coqueanos | not used | coquealos, coquealas | |
| with formal second-person singular imperative coquee | |||||||
| dative | coquéeme | not used | coquéele, coquéese | coquéenos | not used | coquéeles | |
| accusative | coquéeme | not used | coquéelo, coquéela, coquéese | coquéenos | not used | coquéelos, coquéelas | |
| with first-person plural imperative coqueemos | |||||||
| dative | not used | coqueémoste | coqueémosle | coqueémonos | coqueémoos | coqueémosles | |
| accusative | not used | coqueémoste | coqueémoslo, coqueémosla | coqueémonos | coqueémoos | coqueémoslos, coqueémoslas | |
| with informal second-person plural imperative coquead | |||||||
| dative | coqueadme | not used | coqueadle | coqueadnos | coqueaos | coqueadles | |
| accusative | coqueadme | not used | coqueadlo, coqueadla | coqueadnos | coqueaos | coqueadlos, coqueadlas | |
| with formal second-person plural imperative coqueen | |||||||
| dative | coquéenme | not used | coquéenle | coquéennos | not used | coquéenles, coquéense | |
| accusative | coquéenme | not used | coquéenlo, coquéenla | coquéennos | not used | coquéenlos, coquéenlas, coquéense | |
Further reading
- “coquear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014