tachar
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French tacher (“to stain”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
tachar (first-person singular present tacho, first-person singular preterite tachei, past participle tachado)
- (transitive with de) to label; to brand (to ascribe a negative quality to)
- Synonyms: qualificar, timbrar
- (transitive) to criticise (to find fault in)
- Synonym: criticar
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of tachar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Further reading edit
- “tachar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “tachar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Compare Portuguese tachar. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
tachar (first-person singular present tacho, first-person singular preterite taché, past participle tachado)
- (transitive) to cross out
- Synonym: borrar
- (transitive) to omit, leave out
- (transitive with de) to qualify as, brand as (to ascribe a negative quality to)
- 2020 August 27, “El Ayuntamiento de Barcelona reprueba el papel del Gobierno en la marcha de Juan Carlos I”, in El País[1]:
- Esta vez el concejal y Eva Parera, la segunda edil de la formación, se han ausentado de un pleno, que desde que lo pidieron los republicanos y neoconvergentes han tachado de “ilegal”.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of tachar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | tachar | ||||||
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gerund | tachando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | tachado | tachada | |||||
plural | tachados | tachadas | |||||
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 | tacho | tachastú tachásvos |
tacha | tachamos | tacháis | tachan | |
imperfect | tachaba | tachabas | tachaba | tachábamos | tachabais | tachaban | |
preterite | taché | tachaste | tachó | tachamos | tachasteis | tacharon | |
future | tacharé | tacharás | tachará | tacharemos | tacharéis | tacharán | |
conditional | tacharía | tacharías | tacharía | tacharíamos | tacharíais | tacharían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | tache | tachestú tachésvos2 |
tache | tachemos | tachéis | tachen | |
imperfect (ra) |
tachara | tacharas | tachara | tacháramos | tacharais | tacharan | |
imperfect (se) |
tachase | tachases | tachase | tachásemos | tachaseis | tachasen | |
future1 | tachare | tachares | tachare | tacháremos | tachareis | tacharen | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | tachatú tachávos |
tache | tachemos | tachad | tachen | ||
negative | no taches | no tache | no tachemos | no tachéis | no tachen |
Selected combined forms of tachar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “tachar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014