desembarrancar
Spanish
Etymology
From des- + embarrancar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /desembaranˈkaɾ/ [d̪e.sẽm.ba.rãŋˈkaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: de‧sem‧ba‧rran‧car
Verb
desembarrancar (first-person singular present desembarranco, first-person singular preterite desembarranqué, past participle desembarrancado)
- (transitive, nautical) to refloat (after being aground)
- (transitive) to unstrand
- 2017 July 17, “¡Chúpale pichón!”, in Milenio:
- Maritza que mostraba los pelos que se le desembarrancaban del cuerpo y el peinadito de queso oaxaqueño que yacía bajo los pelucones, con su vocecita chirriante cuando aplicaba el clásico “pellizquito de pulguita panteonera, por rastrera”.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
-
Conjugation
Conjugation of desembarrancar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | |||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | |||||||
plural | |||||||
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 | vos | tú||||||
imperfect | |||||||
preterite | |||||||
future | |||||||
conditional | |||||||
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | vos2 | tú||||||
imperfect (ra) | |||||||
imperfect (se) | |||||||
future1 | |||||||
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | vos | tú||||||
negative | no desembarranques | no desembarranque | no desembarranquemos | no desembarranquéis | no desembarranquen |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Further reading
- “desembarrancar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014