pelear
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pe‧le‧ar
Verb edit
pelear (first-person singular present peleio, first-person singular preterite peleei, past participle peleado)
- (South Brazil) Alternative form of pelejar
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of pelear (e becomes ei when stressed) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From pelo (“hair”) + -ear, in the sense of close physical combat, as in the expression agarrarse de las greñas (“to fight”, literally “to grab each others' matted locks”). Compare the semantic development of Romanian părui (“to fight by pulling hair”) from Romanian păr (“hair”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
pelear (first-person singular present peleo, first-person singular preterite peleé, past participle peleado)
- (intransitive) to fight (to contend in physical conflict)
- (intransitive) to fight, to argue
- Synonym: discutir
- (intransitive) to fight for, to struggle against
- 2022 December 21, Beatriz Serrano, “Los 85 años de Jane Fonda: de estrella de Hollywood a superestrella del activismo”, in El País[1]:
- Sin embargo, se rebeló contra su destino cuando encontró motivos para pelear por un mundo mejor[.]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (reflexive) to mutually fight
- (reflexive, by extension) to discord or dispute; to become enemies
- Synonym: enemistarse
- (reflexive, by extension) to lose or stop, temporally or definitively, a friendship, partnership, etc.
- Synonym: enojarse
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of pelear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | pelear | ||||||
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gerund | peleando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | peleado | peleada | |||||
plural | peleados | peleadas | |||||
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 | peleo | peleastú peleásvos |
pelea | peleamos | peleáis | pelean | |
imperfect | peleaba | peleabas | peleaba | peleábamos | peleabais | peleaban | |
preterite | peleé | peleaste | peleó | peleamos | peleasteis | pelearon | |
future | pelearé | pelearás | peleará | pelearemos | pelearéis | pelearán | |
conditional | pelearía | pelearías | pelearía | pelearíamos | pelearíais | pelearían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | pelee | peleestú peleésvos2 |
pelee | peleemos | peleéis | peleen | |
imperfect (ra) |
peleara | pelearas | peleara | peleáramos | pelearais | pelearan | |
imperfect (se) |
pelease | peleases | pelease | peleásemos | peleaseis | peleasen | |
future1 | peleare | peleares | peleare | peleáremos | peleareis | pelearen | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | peleatú peleávos |
pelee | peleemos | pelead | peleen | ||
negative | no pelees | no pelee | no peleemos | no peleéis | no peleen |
Selected combined forms of pelear
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “pelear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014