tachar
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French tacher (“to stain”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /taˈʃa(ʁ)/ [taˈʃa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /taˈʃa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /taˈʃa(ʁ)/ [taˈʃa(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /taˈʃa(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /tɐˈʃaɾ/
- Homophone: taxar
- Hyphenation: ta‧char
Verb
tachar (first-person singular present tacho, first-person singular preterite tachei, past participle tachado)
- (transitive with de) to label; to brand (to ascribe a negative quality to)
- Synonyms: qualificar, timbrar
- (transitive) to criticise (to find fault in)
- Synonym: criticar
Conjugation
Conjugation of tachar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
| 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 | tachar | |||||
| Personal | tachar | tachares | tachar | tacharmos | tachardes | tacharem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| tachando | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | tachado | tachados | ||||
| Feminine | tachada | tachadas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | tacho | tachas | tacha | tachamos | tachais | tacham |
| Imperfect | tachava | tachavas | tachava | tachávamos | tacháveis | tachavam |
| Preterite | tachei | tachaste | tachou | tachamos1, tachámos2 | tachastes | tacharam |
| Pluperfect | tachara | tacharas | tachara | tacháramos | tacháreis | tacharam |
| Future | tacharei | tacharás | tachará | tacharemos | tachareis | tacharão |
| Conditional | ||||||
| tacharia | tacharias | tacharia | tacharíamos | tacharíeis | tachariam | |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | tache | taches | tache | tachemos | tacheis | tachem |
| Imperfect | tachasse | tachasses | tachasse | tachássemos | tachásseis | tachassem |
| Future | tachar | tachares | tachar | tacharmos | tachardes | tacharem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | tacha | tache | tachemos | tachai | tachem | |
| Negative (não) | não taches | não tache | não tachemos | não tacheis | não tachem | |
1Brazil.
2Portugal.
Further reading
- “tachar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
- “tachar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
Compare Portuguese tachar. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taˈt͡ʃaɾ/ [t̪aˈt͡ʃaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: ta‧char
Verb
tachar (first-person singular present tacho, first-person singular preterite taché, past participle tachado)
- (transitive) to cross out
- Synonym: borrar
- (transitive) to omit, leave out
- (transitive with de) to qualify as, brand as (to ascribe a negative quality to)
- 2020 August 27, “El Ayuntamiento de Barcelona reprueba el papel del Gobierno en la marcha de Juan Carlos I”, in El País:
- Esta vez el concejal y Eva Parera, la segunda edil de la formación, se han ausentado de un pleno, que desde que lo pidieron los republicanos y neoconvergentes han tachado de “ilegal”.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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Conjugation
Conjugation of tachar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | tachar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | tachando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | tachado | tachada | |||||
| plural | tachados | tachadas | |||||
| 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 | tacho | tachastú tachásvos | tacha | tachamos | tacháis | tachan | |
| imperfect | tachaba | tachabas | tachaba | tachábamos | tachabais | tachaban | |
| preterite | taché | tachaste | tachó | tachamos | tachasteis | tacharon | |
| future | tacharé | tacharás | tachará | tacharemos | tacharéis | tacharán | |
| conditional | tacharía | tacharías | tacharía | tacharíamos | tacharíais | tacharían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | tache | tachestú tachésvos2 | tache | tachemos | tachéis | tachen | |
| imperfect (ra) | tachara | tacharas | tachara | tacháramos | tacharais | tacharan | |
| imperfect (se) | tachase | tachases | tachase | tachásemos | tachaseis | tachasen | |
| future1 | tachare | tachares | tachare | tacháremos | tachareis | tacharen | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | tachatú tachávos | tache | tachemos | tachad | tachen | ||
| negative | no taches | no tache | no tachemos | no tachéis | no tachen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Selected combined forms of tachar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| with infinitive tachar | |||||||
| dative | tacharme | tacharte | tacharle, tacharse | tacharnos | tacharos | tacharles, tacharse | |
| accusative | tacharme | tacharte | tacharlo, tacharla, tacharse | tacharnos | tacharos | tacharlos, tacharlas, tacharse | |
| with gerund tachando | |||||||
| dative | tachándome | tachándote | tachándole, tachándose | tachándonos | tachándoos | tachándoles, tachándose | |
| accusative | tachándome | tachándote | tachándolo, tachándola, tachándose | tachándonos | tachándoos | tachándolos, tachándolas, tachándose | |
| with informal second-person singular tú imperative tacha | |||||||
| dative | táchame | táchate | táchale | táchanos | not used | táchales | |
| accusative | táchame | táchate | táchalo, táchala | táchanos | not used | táchalos, táchalas | |
| with informal second-person singular vos imperative tachá | |||||||
| dative | tachame | tachate | tachale | tachanos | not used | tachales | |
| accusative | tachame | tachate | tachalo, tachala | tachanos | not used | tachalos, tachalas | |
| with formal second-person singular imperative tache | |||||||
| dative | tácheme | not used | táchele, táchese | táchenos | not used | tácheles | |
| accusative | tácheme | not used | táchelo, táchela, táchese | táchenos | not used | táchelos, táchelas | |
| with first-person plural imperative tachemos | |||||||
| dative | not used | tachémoste | tachémosle | tachémonos | tachémoos | tachémosles | |
| accusative | not used | tachémoste | tachémoslo, tachémosla | tachémonos | tachémoos | tachémoslos, tachémoslas | |
| with informal second-person plural imperative tachad | |||||||
| dative | tachadme | not used | tachadle | tachadnos | tachaos | tachadles | |
| accusative | tachadme | not used | tachadlo, tachadla | tachadnos | tachaos | tachadlos, tachadlas | |
| with formal second-person plural imperative tachen | |||||||
| dative | táchenme | not used | táchenle | táchennos | not used | táchenles, táchense | |
| accusative | táchenme | not used | táchenlo, táchenla | táchennos | not used | táchenlos, táchenlas, táchense | |
Derived terms
- tachable
- tachador
- tachadura
- tache
- tachón
Related terms
- intachable
- tacha
Further reading
- “tachar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014