llavear

Spanish

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ʝabeˈaɾ/ [ɟ͡ʝa.β̞eˈaɾ] (most of Spain and Latin America)
  • IPA(key): /ʎabeˈaɾ/ [ʎa.β̞eˈaɾ] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
  • IPA(key): /ʃabeˈaɾ/ [ʃa.β̞eˈaɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
  • IPA(key): /ʒabeˈaɾ/ [ʒa.β̞eˈaɾ] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: lla‧ve‧ar

Verb

llavear (first-person singular present llaveo, first-person singular preterite llaveé, past participle llaveado)

  1. (Paraguay, Rioplatense) to lock
    • 2015 July 5, “Un grupo de 200 empresas crea una patronal alternativa a CEIM”, in El País[1]:
      Sin embargo, subraya que “la crisis, la corrupción y la falta de ética se han llaveado por delante las patronal y los sindicados”.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

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