caer chuzos de punta
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˌeɾ ˌt͡ʃuθos de ˈpunta/ [kaˌeɾ ˌt͡ʃu.θoz ð̞e ˈpũn̪.t̪a] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /kaˌeɾ ˌt͡ʃusos de ˈpunta/ [kaˌeɾ ˌt͡ʃu.soz ð̞e ˈpũn̪.t̪a] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: ca‧er chu‧zos de pun‧ta
Verb
caer chuzos de punta (impersonal, third-person singular present cae chuzos de punta, third-person singular preterite cayó chuzos de punta, past participle caído chuzos de punta)
- (idiomatic, impersonal) to bucket down
- Synonym: llover chuzos de punta
- está cayendo chuzos de punta
- it's bucketing down
Conjugation
| infinitive | caer chuzos de punta | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | cayendo chuzos de punta | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | caído chuzos de punta | — | |||||
| plural | — | — | |||||
| 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 | — | — | cae chuzos de punta | — | — | — | |
| imperfect | — | — | caía chuzos de punta | — | — | — | |
| preterite | — | — | cayó chuzos de punta | — | — | — | |
| future | — | — | caerá chuzos de punta | — | — | — | |
| conditional | — | — | caería chuzos de punta | — | — | — | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | — | — | caiga chuzos de punta | — | — | — | |
| imperfect (ra) |
— | — | cayera chuzos de punta | — | — | — | |
| imperfect (se) |
— | — | cayese chuzos de punta | — | — | — | |
| future1 | — | — | cayere chuzos de punta | — | — | — | |
| imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
| affirmative | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| negative | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
Further reading
- “caer chuzos, o caer chuzos de punta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024