pelotear
Spanish
Etymology
From pelota (“ball”) + -ear.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peloteˈaɾ/ [pe.lo.t̪eˈaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: pe‧lo‧te‧ar
Verb
pelotear (first-person singular present peloteo, first-person singular preterite peloteé, past participle peloteado)
- (sports) to have an informal game, play for fun
- (tennis) to knock up
- (tennis) to kick a ball about
- (transitive) to twirl around, to swing about
- to bicker, argue
- (colloquial, intransitive) to suck up; brownnose
- Synonyms: hacer la pelota, lamer el culo
Conjugation
Conjugation of pelotear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | pelotear | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | peloteando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | peloteado | peloteada | |||||
| plural | peloteados | peloteadas | |||||
| 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 | peloteo | peloteastú peloteásvos | pelotea | peloteamos | peloteáis | pelotean | |
| imperfect | peloteaba | peloteabas | peloteaba | peloteábamos | peloteabais | peloteaban | |
| preterite | peloteé | peloteaste | peloteó | peloteamos | peloteasteis | pelotearon | |
| future | pelotearé | pelotearás | peloteará | pelotearemos | pelotearéis | pelotearán | |
| conditional | pelotearía | pelotearías | pelotearía | pelotearíamos | pelotearíais | pelotearían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | pelotee | peloteestú peloteésvos2 | pelotee | peloteemos | peloteéis | peloteen | |
| imperfect (ra) | peloteara | pelotearas | peloteara | peloteáramos | pelotearais | pelotearan | |
| imperfect (se) | pelotease | peloteases | pelotease | peloteásemos | peloteaseis | peloteasen | |
| future1 | peloteare | peloteares | peloteare | peloteáremos | peloteareis | pelotearen | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | peloteatú peloteávos | pelotee | peloteemos | pelotead | peloteen | ||
| negative | no pelotees | no pelotee | no peloteemos | no peloteéis | no peloteen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Derived terms
- peloteo
Further reading
- “pelotear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014