chacharear
Spanish
Etymology
From cháchara + -ear.
Verb
chacharear (first-person singular present chachareo, first-person singular preterite chachareé, past participle chachareado)
- (colloquial, intransitive) to babble (talk much)
- Synonym: parlar
- (colloquial, intransitive) to piffle (speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner)
- (colloquial, transitive) to buy trinket
Conjugation
Conjugation of chacharear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | chacharear | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | chachareando | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | chachareado | chachareada | |||||
| plural | chachareados | chachareadas | |||||
| 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 | chachareo | chachareastú chachareásvos | chacharea | chachareamos | chachareáis | chacharean | |
| imperfect | chachareaba | chachareabas | chachareaba | chachareábamos | chachareabais | chachareaban | |
| preterite | chachareé | chachareaste | chachareó | chachareamos | chachareasteis | chacharearon | |
| future | chacharearé | chacharearás | chachareará | chacharearemos | chacharearéis | chacharearán | |
| conditional | chacharearía | chacharearías | chacharearía | chacharearíamos | chacharearíais | chacharearían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | chacharee | chachareestú chachareésvos2 | chacharee | chachareemos | chachareéis | chachareen | |
| imperfect (ra) | chachareara | chacharearas | chachareara | chachareáramos | chacharearais | chacharearan | |
| imperfect (se) | chacharease | chachareases | chacharease | chachareásemos | chachareaseis | chachareasen | |
| future1 | chachareare | chachareares | chachareare | chachareáremos | chachareareis | chacharearen | |
| imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
| affirmative | chachareatú chachareávos | chacharee | chachareemos | chacharead | chachareen | ||
| negative | no chacharees | no chacharee | no chachareemos | no chachareéis | no chachareen | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Further reading
- “chacharear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014