cacarear
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin cucurire, which is imitative.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kakaɾeˈaɾ/ [ka.ka.ɾeˈaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: ca‧ca‧re‧ar
Verb
cacarear (first-person singular present cacareo, first-person singular preterite cacareé, past participle cacareado)
- (transitive) to boast about, to exaggerate the importance of
- a. 1910, Julio Herrera y Reissig, La granja:
- No faltan más que el agua bendita y el hisopo,
para mugir las cándidas consejas del pesebre
y cacarear en ronda las fábulas de Esopo.- (please add an English translation of this quote)
-
- (intransitive) to cackle; to laugh loudly
Conjugation
Conjugation of cacarear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | cacarear | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | cacareando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | cacareado | cacareada | |||||
| plural | cacareados | cacareadas | |||||
| 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 | cacareo | cacareastú cacareásvos | cacarea | cacareamos | cacareáis | cacarean | |
| imperfect | cacareaba | cacareabas | cacareaba | cacareábamos | cacareabais | cacareaban | |
| preterite | cacareé | cacareaste | cacareó | cacareamos | cacareasteis | cacarearon | |
| future | cacarearé | cacarearás | cacareará | cacarearemos | cacarearéis | cacarearán | |
| conditional | cacarearía | cacarearías | cacarearía | cacarearíamos | cacarearíais | cacarearían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | cacaree | cacareestú cacareésvos2 | cacaree | cacareemos | cacareéis | cacareen | |
| imperfect (ra) | cacareara | cacarearas | cacareara | cacareáramos | cacarearais | cacarearan | |
| imperfect (se) | cacarease | cacareases | cacarease | cacareásemos | cacareaseis | cacareasen | |
| future1 | cacareare | cacareares | cacareare | cacareáremos | cacareareis | cacarearen | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | cacareatú cacareávos | cacaree | cacareemos | cacaread | cacareen | ||
| negative | no cacarees | no cacaree | no cacareemos | no cacareéis | no cacareen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Derived terms
- cacareador
- cacareo
- como el gallo de Morón, sin pluma y cacareando
See also
- carcajada
Further reading
- “cacarear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014