embarullar
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom en- + barullo (“hubbub, noise, mess”) + -ar. The n letter from en- is transformed into a m when preceding a b due to Spanish orthographic norms.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /embaɾuˈʝaɾ/ [ẽm.ba.ɾuˈʝaɾ]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /embaɾuˈʎaɾ/ [ẽm.ba.ɾuˈʎaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /embaɾuˈʃaɾ/ [ẽm.ba.ɾuˈʃaɾ]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /embaɾuˈʒaɾ/ [ẽm.ba.ɾuˈʒaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: em‧ba‧ru‧llar
Verb
editembarullar (first-person singular present embarullo, first-person singular preterite embarullé, past participle embarullado)
- to jumble, mess up, bungle
- 2015 September 15, “Pinchazos, descabellos y muchos avisos en la novillada de Albacete”, in El País[1]:
- En su primero fue todo voluntad en una faena de pases sueltos y en la que acabó embarullado, sin acabar de aprovechar las bondades de su antagonista.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of embarullar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
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past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
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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 | vos |
tú||||||
imperfect | |||||||
preterite | |||||||
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subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | vos2 |
tú||||||
imperfect (ra) |
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imperfect (se) |
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future1 | |||||||
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | vos |
tú||||||
negative | no embarulles | no embarulle | no embarullemos | no embarulléis | no embarullen |
Further reading
edit- “embarullar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014