currelar
Spanish
Etymology
From Caló currelar (“to work”), equivalent to currar (“to carry out”) + -elar (intensifier), cf. Romani kerel (“to do”) and Sanskrit कृणोति (kṛṇoti, “to make”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kureˈlaɾ/ [ku.reˈlaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: cu‧rre‧lar
Verb
currelar (first-person singular present currelo, first-person singular preterite currelé, past participle currelado)
- (Spain, colloquial) to work
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trabajar
Conjugation
Conjugation of currelar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | currelar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | currelando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | currelado | currelada | |||||
| plural | currelados | curreladas | |||||
| 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 | currelo | currelastú currelásvos | currela | currelamos | curreláis | currelan | |
| imperfect | currelaba | currelabas | currelaba | currelábamos | currelabais | currelaban | |
| preterite | currelé | currelaste | curreló | currelamos | currelasteis | currelaron | |
| future | currelaré | currelarás | currelará | currelaremos | currelaréis | currelarán | |
| conditional | currelaría | currelarías | currelaría | currelaríamos | currelaríais | currelarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | currele | currelestú currelésvos2 | currele | currelemos | curreléis | currelen | |
| imperfect (ra) | currelara | currelaras | currelara | curreláramos | currelarais | currelaran | |
| imperfect (se) | currelase | currelases | currelase | currelásemos | currelaseis | currelasen | |
| future1 | currelare | currelares | currelare | curreláremos | currelareis | currelaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | currelatú currelávos | currele | currelemos | currelad | currelen | ||
| negative | no curreles | no currele | no currelemos | no curreléis | no currelen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Related terms
- currar
Further reading
- “currelar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014