sesear
Spanish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seseˈaɾ/ [se.seˈaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: se‧se‧ar
Verb
sesear (first-person singular present seseo, first-person singular preterite seseé, past participle seseado)
- to speak in an accent that pronounces the letter "z" as /s/ and the letter "c" before "e" or "i" as /s/
Conjugation
Conjugation of sesear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | sesear | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | seseando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | seseado | seseada | |||||
| plural | seseados | seseadas | |||||
| 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 | seseo | seseastú seseásvos | sesea | seseamos | seseáis | sesean | |
| imperfect | seseaba | seseabas | seseaba | seseábamos | seseabais | seseaban | |
| preterite | seseé | seseaste | seseó | seseamos | seseasteis | sesearon | |
| future | sesearé | sesearás | seseará | sesearemos | sesearéis | sesearán | |
| conditional | sesearía | sesearías | sesearía | sesearíamos | sesearíais | sesearían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | sesee | seseestú seseésvos2 | sesee | seseemos | seseéis | seseen | |
| imperfect (ra) | seseara | sesearas | seseara | seseáramos | sesearais | sesearan | |
| imperfect (se) | sesease | seseases | sesease | seseásemos | seseaseis | seseasen | |
| future1 | seseare | seseares | seseare | seseáremos | seseareis | sesearen | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | seseatú seseávos | sesee | seseemos | sesead | seseen | ||
| negative | no sesees | no sesee | no seseemos | no seseéis | no seseen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Derived terms
- seseante
- seseo
Related terms
- ceceante
- cecear
- ceceo
Further reading
- “sesear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014