cucar
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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cuco (“cuckoo”) + -ar. First attested in the 18th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]cucar (first-person singular present cuco, first-person singular preterite cuquei, past participle cucado)
- (intransitive) to cuckoo
- (transitive) to mock, fool
- (transitive) to captivate
- (transitive, eggs) to empty (an egg) by carving two opposite holes on the shell
- (pronominal) to get fooled
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of cucar (c-qu alternation)
Singular | Plural | |||||
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First-person (eu) |
Second-person (ti) |
Third-person (el / ela / Vde.) |
First-person (nós) |
Second-person (vós) |
Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.) | |
Infinitive | ||||||
Impersonal | cucar | |||||
Personal | cucar | cucares | cucar | cucarmos | cucardes | cucaren |
Gerund | ||||||
cucando | ||||||
Past participle | ||||||
Masculine | cucado | cucados | ||||
Feminine | cucada | cucadas | ||||
Indicative | ||||||
Present | cuco | cucas | cuca | cucamos | cucades | cucan |
Imperfect | cucaba | cucabas | cucaba | cucabamos | cucabades | cucaban |
Preterite | cuquei | cucaches | cucou | cucamos | cucastes | cucaron |
Pluperfect | cucara | cucaras | cucara | cucaramos | cucarades | cucaran |
Future | cucarei | cucarás | cucará | cucaremos | cucaredes | cucarán |
Conditional | cucaría | cucarías | cucaría | cucariamos | cucariades | cucarían |
Subjunctive | ||||||
Present | cuque | cuques | cuque | cuquemos | cuquedes | cuquen |
Imperfect | cucase | cucases | cucase | cucásemos | cucásedes | cucasen |
Future | cucar | cucares | cucar | cucarmos | cucardes | cucaren |
Imperative | ||||||
Affirmative | cuca | cuque | cuquemos | cucade | cuquen | |
Negative (non) | non cuques | non cuque | non cuquemos | non cuquedes | non cuquen |
Reintegrated conjugation of cucar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)
1Less recommended.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cucar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cucar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cucar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN