banderillear
Spanish
Etymology
From banderilla + -ear.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /bandeɾiʝeˈaɾ/ [bãn̪.d̪e.ɾi.ʝeˈaɾ]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /bandeɾiʎeˈaɾ/ [bãn̪.d̪e.ɾi.ʎeˈaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /bandeɾiʃeˈaɾ/ [bãn̪.d̪e.ɾi.ʃeˈaɾ]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /bandeɾiʒeˈaɾ/ [bãn̪.d̪e.ɾi.ʒeˈaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: ban‧de‧ri‧lle‧ar
Verb
banderillear (first-person singular present banderilleo, first-person singular preterite banderilleé, past participle banderilleado)
- (bullfighting, transitive) to stick banderillas in the bull
- 2015 October 14, “La afición de Zaragoza se entrega a un agradecido, efectista y desigual Padilla”, in El País:
- El Fandi brilló solo en los primeros tercios de la lidia de los dos de su lote, sobre todo al banderillear con espectacularidad a su primero, que sacó genio defensivo hasta que decidió echarse por su cuenta sobre la arena.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of banderillear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | banderillear | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | banderilleando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | banderilleado | banderilleada | |||||
| plural | banderilleados | banderilleadas | |||||
| 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 | banderilleo | banderilleastú banderilleásvos | banderillea | banderilleamos | banderilleáis | banderillean | |
| imperfect | banderilleaba | banderilleabas | banderilleaba | banderilleábamos | banderilleabais | banderilleaban | |
| preterite | banderilleé | banderilleaste | banderilleó | banderilleamos | banderilleasteis | banderillearon | |
| future | banderillearé | banderillearás | banderilleará | banderillearemos | banderillearéis | banderillearán | |
| conditional | banderillearía | banderillearías | banderillearía | banderillearíamos | banderillearíais | banderillearían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | banderillee | banderilleestú banderilleésvos2 | banderillee | banderilleemos | banderilleéis | banderilleen | |
| imperfect (ra) | banderilleara | banderillearas | banderilleara | banderilleáramos | banderillearais | banderillearan | |
| imperfect (se) | banderillease | banderilleases | banderillease | banderilleásemos | banderilleaseis | banderilleasen | |
| future1 | banderilleare | banderilleares | banderilleare | banderilleáremos | banderilleareis | banderillearen | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | banderilleatú banderilleávos | banderillee | banderilleemos | banderillead | banderilleen | ||
| negative | no banderillees | no banderillee | no banderilleemos | no banderilleéis | no banderilleen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Further reading
- “banderillear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014