balbucir
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin balbutire, from balbus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /balbuˈθiɾ/ [bal.β̞uˈθiɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /balbuˈsiɾ/ [bal.β̞uˈsiɾ]
- Rhymes: -iɾ
- Syllabification: bal‧bu‧cir
Verb
[edit]balbucir (no first-person singular present, no present subjunctive, third-person singular present balbuce, first-person singular preterite balbucí, past participle balbucido)
- to stammer
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of balbucir (defective) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | balbucir | ||||||
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gerund | balbuciendo | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | balbucido | balbucida | |||||
plural | balbucidos | balbucidas | |||||
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 | — | balbucestú balbucísvos |
balbuce | balbucimos | balbucís | balbucen | |
imperfect | balbucía | balbucías | balbucía | balbucíamos | balbucíais | balbucían | |
preterite | balbucí | balbuciste | balbució | balbucimos | balbucisteis | balbucieron | |
future | balbuciré | balbucirás | balbucirá | balbuciremos | balbuciréis | balbucirán | |
conditional | balbuciría | balbucirías | balbuciría | balbuciríamos | balbuciríais | balbucirían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
imperfect (ra) |
balbuciera | balbucieras | balbuciera | balbuciéramos | balbucierais | balbucieran | |
imperfect (se) |
balbuciese | balbucieses | balbuciese | balbuciésemos | balbucieseis | balbuciesen | |
future1 | balbuciere | balbucieres | balbuciere | balbuciéremos | balbuciereis | balbucieren | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | balbucetú balbucívos |
— | — | balbucid | — | ||
negative | — | — | — | — | — |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “balbucir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10