relampaguear
Spanish
Etymology
From relámpago + -ear.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /relampaɡeˈaɾ/ [re.lãm.pa.ɣ̞eˈaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: re‧lam‧pa‧gue‧ar
Verb
relampaguear (impersonal, third-person singular present relampaguea, third-person singular preterite relampagueó, past participle relampagueado)
- (intransitive, impersonal) to flash (from lightning, etc)
Conjugation
Conjugation of relampaguear (impersonal) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | relampaguear | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | relampagueando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | relampagueado | — | |||||
| plural | — | — | |||||
| 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 | — | — | relampaguea | — | — | — | |
| imperfect | — | — | relampagueaba | — | — | — | |
| preterite | — | — | relampagueó | — | — | — | |
| future | — | — | relampagueará | — | — | — | |
| conditional | — | — | relampaguearía | — | — | — | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | — | — | relampaguee | — | — | — | |
| imperfect (ra) | — | — | relampagueara | — | — | — | |
| imperfect (se) | — | — | relampaguease | — | — | — | |
| future1 | — | — | relampagueare | — | — | — | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| negative | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
Derived terms
- llueva, truene o relampaguee
- relampagueante
Further reading
- “relampaguear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014