desbarrancar
Spanish
FWOTD – 10 December 2016
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /desbaranˈkaɾ/ [d̪ez.β̞a.rãŋˈkaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: des‧ba‧rran‧car
Verb
desbarrancar (first-person singular present desbarranco, first-person singular preterite desbarranqué, past participle desbarrancado)
- (transitive) to throw off a cliff
- Synonym: despeñar
- 2015 November 6, “El sufrimiento del mate”, in El País[1]:
- En 2013, tres adolescentes de 13, 14 y 17 años murieron al desbarrancar uno de esos vehículos y a partir de entonces la provincia compró autobuses para dárselos a los contratistas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to crush
Conjugation
Conjugation of desbarrancar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
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| 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 | tú vos |
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| subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | tú vos2 |
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| imperfect (ra) |
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| imperfect (se) |
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| imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
| affirmative | tú vos |
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| negative | no desbarranques | no desbarranque | no desbarranquemos | no desbarranquéis | no desbarranquen | ||
Selected combined forms of desbarrancar (c-qu alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
| singular | plural | ||||||
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| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| with infinitive | dative | , | , | ||||
| accusative | , , | , , | |||||
| with gerund | dative | , | , | ||||
| accusative | , , | , , | |||||
| with informal second-person singular tú imperative | dative | not used | |||||
| accusative | , | not used | , | ||||
| with informal second-person singular vos imperative | dative | not used | |||||
| accusative | , | not used | , | ||||
| with formal second-person singular imperative | dative | not used | , | not used | |||
| accusative | not used | , , | not used | , | |||
| with first-person plural imperative | dative | not used | |||||
| accusative | not used | , | , | ||||
| with informal second-person plural imperative | dative | not used | |||||
| accusative | not used | , | , | ||||
| with formal second-person plural imperative | dative | not used | not used | , | |||
| accusative | not used | , | not used | , , | |||
Further reading
- “desbarrancar”, 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