hormiguear
Spanish
Etymology
From hormiga + -ear.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oɾmiɡeˈaɾ/ [oɾ.mi.ɣ̞eˈaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: hor‧mi‧gue‧ar
Verb
hormiguear (first-person singular present hormigueo, first-person singular preterite hormigueé, past participle hormigueado)
- (intransitive) to give or provoke pins and needles
- El cuello me hormiguea.
- I've got pins and needles in my neck.
- (intransitive) to swarm
Conjugation
Conjugation of hormiguear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | hormiguear | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | hormigueando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | hormigueado | hormigueada | |||||
| plural | hormigueados | hormigueadas | |||||
| 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 | hormigueo | hormigueastú hormigueásvos | hormiguea | hormigueamos | hormigueáis | hormiguean | |
| imperfect | hormigueaba | hormigueabas | hormigueaba | hormigueábamos | hormigueabais | hormigueaban | |
| preterite | hormigueé | hormigueaste | hormigueó | hormigueamos | hormigueasteis | hormiguearon | |
| future | hormiguearé | hormiguearás | hormigueará | hormiguearemos | hormiguearéis | hormiguearán | |
| conditional | hormiguearía | hormiguearías | hormiguearía | hormiguearíamos | hormiguearíais | hormiguearían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | hormiguee | hormigueestú hormigueésvos2 | hormiguee | hormigueemos | hormigueéis | hormigueen | |
| imperfect (ra) | hormigueara | hormiguearas | hormigueara | hormigueáramos | hormiguearais | hormiguearan | |
| imperfect (se) | hormiguease | hormigueases | hormiguease | hormigueásemos | hormigueaseis | hormigueasen | |
| future1 | hormigueare | hormigueares | hormigueare | hormigueáremos | hormigueareis | hormiguearen | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | hormigueatú hormigueávos | hormiguee | hormigueemos | hormiguead | hormigueen | ||
| negative | no hormiguees | no hormiguee | no hormigueemos | no hormigueéis | no hormigueen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Derived terms
- hormigueo
Further reading
- “hormiguear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014