pinchar
Caló
Alternative forms
- pinchardar
Verb
pinchar
- to recognize, to know (someone)
Galician
Etymology
Unknown.[1] Perhaps a metathesis of the synonym chimpar, itself hypothetically from an earlier *plimpar, onomatopoeic. Compare Irish plimp (“sudden fall”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pinˈt͡ʃaɾ/
Verb
pinchar (first-person singular present pincho, first-person singular preterite pinchei, past participle pinchado)
- to take down
- 1750, anonymous, Galanteo de mozo e moza:
- Agora si, que cai ben
- aquel conto do Boy manso,
- que nunha corrida de Touros,
- se ò pican, â ollos cerrados
- â hùs lles fura os calzòs,
- outros os pincha rodando,
- este quero, aquel non quero,
- esparcendolle os fargallos,
- hasta que queda à Praza
- espoada âô seu mandado:
- Now it sits well
- that tale of the docile ox,
- that in a bullfight
- if they sting him, as with closed eyes,
- he bore the pants of some,
- others he takes down rolling,
- this one I want, that I don't,
- scattering their rags,
- till the plaza is left
- sieved [dusted?] at his command
- Synonyms: abater, deitar, tirar
- 1750, anonymous, Galanteo de mozo e moza:
- to cut down a tree
- to throw down
- to cause to jump
- (transitive) to jump over; to overleap
- (intransitive) to jump
- Synonyms: brincar, chimpar, choutar, saltar
- to shove
Conjugation
singular | plural | |||||
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person | first | second | third | first | second | third |
Infinitive | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
impersonal | pinchar | |||||
personal | pinchar | pinchares | pinchar | pincharmos | pinchardes | pincharen |
Gerund | ||||||
pinchando | ||||||
Past participle | singular | plural | ||||
masculine | pinchado | pinchados | ||||
feminine | pinchada | pinchadas | ||||
Indicative | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
present | pincho | pinchas | pincha | pinchamos | pinchades | pinchan |
imperfect | pinchaba | pinchabas | pinchaba | pinchabamos | pinchabades | pinchaban |
preterite | pinchei | pinchaches | pinchou | pinchamos | pinchastes | pincharon |
pluperfect | pinchara | pincharas | pinchara | pincharamos | pincharades | pincharan |
future | pincharei | pincharás | pinchará | pincharemos | pincharedes | pincharán |
conditional | pincharía | pincharías | pincharía | pinchariamos | pinchariades | pincharían |
Subjunctive | eu | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
present | pinche | pinches | pinche | pinchemos | pinchedes | pinchen |
preterite | pinchase | pinchases | pinchase | pinchásemos | pinchásedes | pinchasen |
future | pinchar | pinchares | pinchar | pincharmos | pinchardes | pincharen |
Imperative | – | ti | el/ela/Vde. | nós | vós | eles/elas/Vdes. |
affirmative | – | pincha | pinche | pinchemos | pinchade | pinchen |
negative | – | pinches | pinche | pinchemos | pinchedes | pinchen |
Derived terms
- pinchacarneiro
- pinchagato
- pincheira
- pincheiro
- pincho
- pinchón
Related terms
- chimpar
References
- “pinchar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “pinchar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “pinchar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Cf. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “pinchar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Portuguese
Verb
pinchar (first-person singular present pincho, first-person singular preterite pinchei, past participle pinchado)
- to jump
Conjugation
Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
First-person (eu) | Second-person (tu) | Third-person (ele / ela / você) | First-person (nós) | Second-person (vós) | Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
Infinitive | ||||||
Impersonal | pinchar | |||||
Personal | pinchar | pinchares | pinchar | pincharmos | pinchardes | pincharem |
Gerund | ||||||
pinchando | ||||||
Past participle | ||||||
Masculine | pinchado | pinchados | ||||
Feminine | pinchada | pinchadas | ||||
Indicative | ||||||
Present | pincho | pinchas | pincha | pinchamos | pinchais | pincham |
Imperfect | pinchava | pinchavas | pinchava | pinchávamos | pincháveis | pinchavam |
Preterite | pinchei | pinchaste | pinchou | pinchamos1, pinchámos2 | pinchastes | pincharam |
Pluperfect | pinchara | pincharas | pinchara | pincháramos | pincháreis | pincharam |
Future | pincharei | pincharás | pinchará | pincharemos | pinchareis | pincharão |
Conditional | ||||||
pincharia | pincharias | pincharia | pincharíamos | pincharíeis | pinchariam | |
Subjunctive | ||||||
Present | pinche | pinches | pinche | pinchemos | pincheis | pinchem |
Imperfect | pinchasse | pinchasses | pinchasse | pinchássemos | pinchásseis | pinchassem |
Future | pinchar | pinchares | pinchar | pincharmos | pinchardes | pincharem |
Imperative | ||||||
Affirmative | pincha | pinche | pinchemos | pinchai | pinchem | |
Negative (não) | não pinches | não pinche | não pinchemos | não pincheis | não pinchem |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Spanish
Etymology
Most likely from a crossing of punchar (itself a variant of punzar, from Vulgar Latin *punctiāre, from Latin punctus), and picar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pinˈt͡ʃaɾ/ [pĩnʲˈt͡ʃaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: pin‧char
Verb
pinchar (first-person singular present pincho, first-person singular preterite pinché, past participle pinchado)
- to puncture, prick, pierce
- to poke
- (animals, needle) to sting
- (graphical user interface) to click
- Synonyms: hacer clic, cliquear
- (colloquial) to flirt
- Synonym: ligar
- (colloquial) to get flirted
- (music) to deejay, DJ
- (telephony) to tap someone's phone (call up by telephone and suspend before a conversation is initiated in order to make the receiver call back)
- (telephony, colloquial) putting some tool for hearing in secret private conversation by phone; eavesdropping
- (intransitive, colloquial) to slip up (fail)
- (colloquial) to fuck
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:joder
- (colloquial) to wind up, pester
- (reflexive) to shoot up (to inject drugs intravenously)
- 2017 July 1, “Crean dispositivo para medir glucosa a través de saliva”, in Frontera.info:
- Cerca de 422 millones de adultos padecen diabetes, y para medir sus niveles de azúcar pasan por una situación incómoda todos los días: deben pincharse el dedo para medir sus niveles de azúcar.
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Conjugation
infinitive | pinchar | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | pinchando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | pinchado | pinchada | |||||
plural | pinchados | pinchadas | |||||
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 | pincho | pinchastú pinchásvos | pincha | pinchamos | pincháis | pinchan | |
imperfect | pinchaba | pinchabas | pinchaba | pinchábamos | pinchabais | pinchaban | |
preterite | pinché | pinchaste | pinchó | pinchamos | pinchasteis | pincharon | |
future | pincharé | pincharás | pinchará | pincharemos | pincharéis | pincharán | |
conditional | pincharía | pincharías | pincharía | pincharíamos | pincharíais | pincharían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | pinche | pinchestú pinchésvos2 | pinche | pinchemos | pinchéis | pinchen | |
imperfect (ra) | pinchara | pincharas | pinchara | pincháramos | pincharais | pincharan | |
imperfect (se) | pinchase | pinchases | pinchase | pinchásemos | pinchaseis | pinchasen | |
future1 | pinchare | pinchares | pinchare | pincháremos | pinchareis | pincharen | |
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | pinchatú pinchávos | pinche | pinchemos | pinchad | pinchen | ||
negative | no pinches | no pinche | no pinchemos | no pinchéis | no pinchen |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
singular | plural | ||||||
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1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
with infinitive pinchar | |||||||
dative | pincharme | pincharte | pincharle, pincharse | pincharnos | pincharos | pincharles, pincharse | |
accusative | pincharme | pincharte | pincharlo, pincharla, pincharse | pincharnos | pincharos | pincharlos, pincharlas, pincharse | |
with gerund pinchando | |||||||
dative | pinchándome | pinchándote | pinchándole, pinchándose | pinchándonos | pinchándoos | pinchándoles, pinchándose | |
accusative | pinchándome | pinchándote | pinchándolo, pinchándola, pinchándose | pinchándonos | pinchándoos | pinchándolos, pinchándolas, pinchándose | |
with informal second-person singular tú imperative pincha | |||||||
dative | pínchame | pínchate | pínchale | pínchanos | not used | pínchales | |
accusative | pínchame | pínchate | pínchalo, pínchala | pínchanos | not used | pínchalos, pínchalas | |
with informal second-person singular vos imperative pinchá | |||||||
dative | pinchame | pinchate | pinchale | pinchanos | not used | pinchales | |
accusative | pinchame | pinchate | pinchalo, pinchala | pinchanos | not used | pinchalos, pinchalas | |
with formal second-person singular imperative pinche | |||||||
dative | píncheme | not used | pínchele, pínchese | pínchenos | not used | píncheles | |
accusative | píncheme | not used | pínchelo, pínchela, pínchese | pínchenos | not used | pínchelos, pínchelas | |
with first-person plural imperative pinchemos | |||||||
dative | not used | pinchémoste | pinchémosle | pinchémonos | pinchémoos | pinchémosles | |
accusative | not used | pinchémoste | pinchémoslo, pinchémosla | pinchémonos | pinchémoos | pinchémoslos, pinchémoslas | |
with informal second-person plural imperative pinchad | |||||||
dative | pinchadme | not used | pinchadle | pinchadnos | pinchaos | pinchadles | |
accusative | pinchadme | not used | pinchadlo, pinchadla | pinchadnos | pinchaos | pinchadlos, pinchadlas | |
with formal second-person plural imperative pinchen | |||||||
dative | pínchenme | not used | pínchenle | pínchennos | not used | pínchenles, pínchense | |
accusative | pínchenme | not used | pínchenlo, pínchenla | pínchennos | not used | pínchenlos, pínchenlas, pínchense |
Derived terms
- carne pinchada
- mierda pinchada en un palo
- pinchadiscos
- pinchar en hueso
- pinchazo
- pinche
- pincho
Further reading
- “pinchar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014