cotillear
Spanish
Etymology
From cotilla + -ear.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kotiʝeˈaɾ/ [ko.t̪i.ʝeˈaɾ]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /kotiʎeˈaɾ/ [ko.t̪i.ʎeˈaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kotiʃeˈaɾ/ [ko.t̪i.ʃeˈaɾ]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kotiʒeˈaɾ/ [ko.t̪i.ʒeˈaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: co‧ti‧lle‧ar
Verb
cotillear (first-person singular present cotilleo, first-person singular preterite cotilleé, past participle cotilleado)
- to gossip
- Synonyms: chismear, chismorrear, comadrear, copuchear, salsear
Conjugation
Conjugation of cotillear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | cotillear | ||||||
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gerund | cotilleando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | cotilleado | cotilleada | |||||
plural | cotilleados | cotilleadas | |||||
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 | cotilleo | cotilleastú cotilleásvos | cotillea | cotilleamos | cotilleáis | cotillean | |
imperfect | cotilleaba | cotilleabas | cotilleaba | cotilleábamos | cotilleabais | cotilleaban | |
preterite | cotilleé | cotilleaste | cotilleó | cotilleamos | cotilleasteis | cotillearon | |
future | cotillearé | cotillearás | cotilleará | cotillearemos | cotillearéis | cotillearán | |
conditional | cotillearía | cotillearías | cotillearía | cotillearíamos | cotillearíais | cotillearían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | cotillee | cotilleestú cotilleésvos2 | cotillee | cotilleemos | cotilleéis | cotilleen | |
imperfect (ra) | cotilleara | cotillearas | cotilleara | cotilleáramos | cotillearais | cotillearan | |
imperfect (se) | cotillease | cotilleases | cotillease | cotilleásemos | cotilleaseis | cotilleasen | |
future1 | cotilleare | cotilleares | cotilleare | cotilleáremos | cotilleareis | cotillearen | |
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | cotilleatú cotilleávos | cotillee | cotilleemos | cotillead | cotilleen | ||
negative | no cotillees | no cotillee | no cotilleemos | no cotilleéis | no cotilleen |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Related terms
- cotilla
- cotilleo
- cotillón
Further reading
- “cotillear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014