pizcar
Spanish
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /piθˈkaɾ/ [piθˈkaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /pisˈkaɾ/ [pisˈkaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: piz‧car
Verb
pizcar (first-person singular present pizco, first-person singular preterite pizqué, past participle pizcado)
- (transitive) to pinch (to squeeze a small amount of a person's skin)
- Synonym: pellizcar
Conjugation
Conjugation of pizcar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | pizcar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | pizcando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | pizcado | pizcada | |||||
| plural | pizcados | pizcadas | |||||
| 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 | pizco | pizcastú pizcásvos | pizca | pizcamos | pizcáis | pizcan | |
| imperfect | pizcaba | pizcabas | pizcaba | pizcábamos | pizcabais | pizcaban | |
| preterite | pizqué | pizcaste | pizcó | pizcamos | pizcasteis | pizcaron | |
| future | pizcaré | pizcarás | pizcará | pizcaremos | pizcaréis | pizcarán | |
| conditional | pizcaría | pizcarías | pizcaría | pizcaríamos | pizcaríais | pizcarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | pizque | pizquestú pizquésvos2 | pizque | pizquemos | pizquéis | pizquen | |
| imperfect (ra) | pizcara | pizcaras | pizcara | pizcáramos | pizcarais | pizcaran | |
| imperfect (se) | pizcase | pizcases | pizcase | pizcásemos | pizcaseis | pizcasen | |
| future1 | pizcare | pizcares | pizcare | pizcáremos | pizcareis | pizcaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | pizcatú pizcávos | pizque | pizquemos | pizcad | pizquen | ||
| negative | no pizques | no pizque | no pizquemos | no pizquéis | no pizquen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Derived terms
- pizco
Further reading
- “pizcar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014