bailotear
Spanish
Etymology
bailar + -ote
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bailoteˈaɾ/ [bai̯.lo.t̪eˈaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: bai‧lo‧te‧ar
Verb
bailotear (first-person singular present bailoteo, first-person singular preterite bailoteé, past participle bailoteado)
- (intransitive, colloquial) to dance around, to shimmy
Conjugation
Conjugation of bailotear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | bailotear | ||||||
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gerund | bailoteando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | bailoteado | bailoteada | |||||
plural | bailoteados | bailoteadas | |||||
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 | bailoteo | bailoteastú bailoteásvos | bailotea | bailoteamos | bailoteáis | bailotean | |
imperfect | bailoteaba | bailoteabas | bailoteaba | bailoteábamos | bailoteabais | bailoteaban | |
preterite | bailoteé | bailoteaste | bailoteó | bailoteamos | bailoteasteis | bailotearon | |
future | bailotearé | bailotearás | bailoteará | bailotearemos | bailotearéis | bailotearán | |
conditional | bailotearía | bailotearías | bailotearía | bailotearíamos | bailotearíais | bailotearían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | bailotee | bailoteestú bailoteésvos2 | bailotee | bailoteemos | bailoteéis | bailoteen | |
imperfect (ra) | bailoteara | bailotearas | bailoteara | bailoteáramos | bailotearais | bailotearan | |
imperfect (se) | bailotease | bailoteases | bailotease | bailoteásemos | bailoteaseis | bailoteasen | |
future1 | bailoteare | bailoteares | bailoteare | bailoteáremos | bailoteareis | bailotearen | |
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | bailoteatú bailoteávos | bailotee | bailoteemos | bailotead | bailoteen | ||
negative | no bailotees | no bailotee | no bailoteemos | no bailoteéis | no bailoteen |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Derived terms
- bailoteo
Further reading
- “bailotear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014