acaballar

Aragonese

Etymology

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Verb

acaballar

1. (transitive) to superimpose

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “acaballar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Spanish

Etymology

From caballo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /akabaˈʝaɾ/ [a.ka.β̞aˈʝaɾ]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /akabaˈʝaɾ/ [a.ka.β̞aˈʝaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /akabaˈʎaɾ/ [a.ka.β̞aˈʎaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /akabaˈʃaɾ/ [a.ka.β̞aˈʃaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /akabaˈʒaɾ/ [a.ka.β̞aˈʒaɾ]

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ca‧ba‧llar

Verb

acaballar (first-person singular present acaballo, first-person singular preterite acaballé, past participle acaballado)

1. (transitive, of horses and donkeys) to mate with (a mare)
2. (transitive) to stack on, pile on

Conjugation

    Conjugation of acaballar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			acaballar
gerund			acaballando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		acaballado		acaballada
		plural		acaballados		acaballadas
		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	acaballo	acaballastú acaballásvos	acaballa	acaballamos	acaballáis	acaballan
	imperfect	acaballaba	acaballabas	acaballaba	acaballábamos	acaballabais	acaballaban
	preterite	acaballé	acaballaste	acaballó	acaballamos	acaballasteis	acaballaron
	future	acaballaré	acaballarás	acaballará	acaballaremos	acaballaréis	acaballarán
	conditional	acaballaría	acaballarías	acaballaría	acaballaríamos	acaballaríais	acaballarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	acaballe	acaballestú acaballésvos2	acaballe	acaballemos	acaballéis	acaballen
	imperfect (ra)	acaballara	acaballaras	acaballara	acaballáramos	acaballarais	acaballaran
	imperfect (se)	acaballase	acaballases	acaballase	acaballásemos	acaballaseis	acaballasen
	future1	acaballare	acaballares	acaballare	acaballáremos	acaballareis	acaballaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		acaballatú acaballávos	acaballe	acaballemos	acaballad	acaballen
	negative		no acaballes	no acaballe	no acaballemos	no acaballéis	no acaballen

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

Further reading

• “acaballar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10