zuzar
Spanish
Etymology
From zuzo + -ar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θuˈθaɾ/ [θuˈθaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /suˈsaɾ/ [suˈsaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: zu‧zar
Verb
zuzar (first-person singular present zuzo, first-person singular preterite zucé, past participle zuzado)
- (transitive, dated) to incite
- 1880, Daniel Florencio O'Leary, Memorias del general O'Leary (Memoirs of the general O'Leary), page 522:
- Debe, pues, creerse concluido el grito de reformas que levantó Venezuela; y la dificultad está reducida á impedir que viéndose abandonado Páez, imite desesperado á Cisneros, en cuya empresa le ayudarían, entre algunos otros, los que por amor á Fernando VII le han estado ahora zuzando.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- We should, then, think concluded the shout of reforms which lifted Venezuela; and the difficulty is reduced to stop them seeing abandoned Páez, desperate to imitate Cisneros, in whose company we would be helped, among others, for those who love Fernando VII have been now incited.
- Synonym: incitar
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Conjugation
Conjugation of zuzar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | zuzar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | zuzando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | zuzado | zuzada | |||||
| plural | zuzados | zuzadas | |||||
| 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 | zuzo | zuzastú zuzásvos | zuza | zuzamos | zuzáis | zuzan | |
| imperfect | zuzaba | zuzabas | zuzaba | zuzábamos | zuzabais | zuzaban | |
| preterite | zucé | zuzaste | zuzó | zuzamos | zuzasteis | zuzaron | |
| future | zuzaré | zuzarás | zuzará | zuzaremos | zuzaréis | zuzarán | |
| conditional | zuzaría | zuzarías | zuzaría | zuzaríamos | zuzaríais | zuzarían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | zuce | zucestú zucésvos2 | zuce | zucemos | zucéis | zucen | |
| imperfect (ra) | zuzara | zuzaras | zuzara | zuzáramos | zuzarais | zuzaran | |
| imperfect (se) | zuzase | zuzases | zuzase | zuzásemos | zuzaseis | zuzasen | |
| future1 | zuzare | zuzares | zuzare | zuzáremos | zuzareis | zuzaren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | zuzatú zuzávos | zuce | zucemos | zuzad | zucen | ||
| negative | no zuces | no zuce | no zucemos | no zucéis | no zucen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Further reading
- “zuzar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014