ahechar

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin affectāre (“to pursue, to cling to, to seize”). Doublet of afectar and afeitar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aeˈt͡ʃaɾ/ [a.eˈt͡ʃaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧he‧char

Verb

ahechar (first-person singular present ahecho, first-person singular preterite aheché, past participle ahechado)

1. (transitive, agriculture) to winnow (to separate the heavier and lighter with a current of air)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of ahechar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			ahechar
gerund			ahechando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		ahechado		ahechada
		plural		ahechados		ahechadas
		singular			plural
		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	ahecho	ahechastú ahechásvos	ahecha	ahechamos	ahecháis	ahechan
	imperfect	ahechaba	ahechabas	ahechaba	ahechábamos	ahechabais	ahechaban
	preterite	aheché	ahechaste	ahechó	ahechamos	ahechasteis	ahecharon
	future	ahecharé	ahecharás	ahechará	ahecharemos	ahecharéis	ahecharán
	conditional	ahecharía	ahecharías	ahecharía	ahecharíamos	ahecharíais	ahecharían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	aheche	ahechestú ahechésvos2	aheche	ahechemos	ahechéis	ahechen
	imperfect (ra)	ahechara	ahecharas	ahechara	ahecháramos	ahecharais	ahecharan
	imperfect (se)	ahechase	ahechases	ahechase	ahechásemos	ahechaseis	ahechasen
	future1	ahechare	ahechares	ahechare	ahecháremos	ahechareis	ahecharen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		ahechatú ahechávos	aheche	ahechemos	ahechad	ahechen
	negative		no aheches	no aheche	no ahechemos	no ahechéis	no ahechen

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

Related terms

• afectar
• afeitar

 

Further reading

• “ahechar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014