maullar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /mauˈʝaɾ/ [mau̯ˈʝaɾ]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /mauˈʎaɾ/ [mau̯ˈʎaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /mauˈʃaɾ/ [mau̯ˈʃaɾ]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /mauˈʒaɾ/ [mau̯ˈʒaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: mau‧llar
Verb
maullar (first-person singular present maúllo, first-person singular preterite maullé, past participle maullado)
- to meow
Conjugation
Conjugation of maullar (u-ú alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | maullar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | maullando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | maullado | maullada | |||||
| plural | maullados | maulladas | |||||
| 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 | maúllo | maúllastú maullásvos | maúlla | maullamos | maulláis | maúllan | |
| imperfect | maullaba | maullabas | maullaba | maullábamos | maullabais | maullaban | |
| preterite | maullé | maullaste | maulló | maullamos | maullasteis | maullaron | |
| future | maullaré | maullarás | maullará | maullaremos | maullaréis | maullarán | |
| conditional | maullaría | maullarías | maullaría | maullaríamos | maullaríais | maullarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | maúlle | maúllestú maullésvos2 | maúlle | maullemos | maulléis | maúllen | |
| imperfect (ra) | maullara | maullaras | maullara | maulláramos | maullarais | maullaran | |
| imperfect (se) | maullase | maullases | maullase | maullásemos | maullaseis | maullasen | |
| future1 | maullare | maullares | maullare | maulláremos | maullareis | maullaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | maúllatú maullávos | maúlle | maullemos | maullad | maúllen | ||
| negative | no maúlles | no maúlle | no maullemos | no maulléis | no maúllen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Related terms
- maullido
Further reading
- “maullar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014