retumbar
Spanish
Etymology
re- + tumbar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /retumˈbaɾ/ [re.t̪ũmˈbaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: re‧tum‧bar
Verb
retumbar (first-person singular present retumbo, first-person singular preterite retumbé, past participle retumbado)
- to rumble
- to thunder
- El sonido de los disparos no cesaba de retumbar en todo el campo.
- The sound of gunfire did not cease thundering throughout the countryside.
- to resound
Conjugation
Conjugation of retumbar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | |||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | |||||||
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 | vos | tú||||||
imperfect | |||||||
preterite | |||||||
future | |||||||
conditional | |||||||
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | vos2 | tú||||||
imperfect (ra) | |||||||
imperfect (se) | |||||||
future1 | |||||||
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | vos | tú||||||
negative | no retumbes | no retumbe | no retumbemos | no retumbéis | no retumben |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Derived terms
- retumbante
- retumbo
Further reading
- “retumbar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014