palabrear

Spanish

Etymology

From palabra +‎ -ear.

Verb

palabrear (first-person singular present palabreo, first-person singular preterite palabreé, past participle palabreado)

(Chile) to insult
Synonym: insultar

Conjugation

Conjugation of palabrear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

		singular			plural
infinitive			palabrear
gerund			palabreando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		palabreado		palabreada
		plural		palabreados		palabreadas
		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	palabreo	palabreas^{^tú} palabreás^{^vos}	palabrea	palabreamos	palabreáis	palabrean
	imperfect	palabreaba	palabreabas	palabreaba	palabreábamos	palabreabais	palabreaban
	preterite	palabreé	palabreaste	palabreó	palabreamos	palabreasteis	palabrearon
	future	palabrearé	palabrearás	palabreará	palabrearemos	palabrearéis	palabrearán
	conditional	palabrearía	palabrearías	palabrearía	palabrearíamos	palabrearíais	palabrearían

subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	palabree	palabrees^{^tú} palabreés^{^vos²}	palabree	palabreemos	palabreéis	palabreen
	imperfect (ra)	palabreara	palabrearas	palabreara	palabreáramos	palabrearais	palabrearan
	imperfect (se)	palabrease	palabreases	palabrease	palabreásemos	palabreaseis	palabreasen
	future¹	palabreare	palabreares	palabreare	palabreáremos	palabreareis	palabrearen

imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		palabrea^{^tú} palabreá^{^vos}	palabree	palabreemos	palabread	palabreen
	negative		no palabrees	no palabree	no palabreemos	no palabreéis	no palabreen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Further reading

“palabrear”, 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
Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023) “palabrear”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]