parpadear
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From párpado (“eyelid”) + -ear.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
parpadear (first-person singular present parpadeo, first-person singular preterite parpadeé, past participle parpadeado)
- to blink (light or eyes)
- 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “Sensini”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:
- La vida en Buenos Aires, me consolé, debia de ser rápida, explosiva, sin tiempo para nada, sólo para respirar y parpadear.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to bat one's eyelids, to flutter the eyelids
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of parpadear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “parpadear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014