borbotar

Spanish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boɾboˈtaɾ/ [boɾ.β̞oˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bor‧bo‧tar

Verb

borbotar (first-person singular present borboto, first-person singular preterite borboté, past participle borbotado)

1. (intransitive) to boil

Conjugation

    Conjugation of borbotar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			borbotar
gerund			borbotando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		borbotado		borbotada
		plural		borbotados		borbotadas
		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	borboto	borbotastú borbotásvos	borbota	borbotamos	borbotáis	borbotan
	imperfect	borbotaba	borbotabas	borbotaba	borbotábamos	borbotabais	borbotaban
	preterite	borboté	borbotaste	borbotó	borbotamos	borbotasteis	borbotaron
	future	borbotaré	borbotarás	borbotará	borbotaremos	borbotaréis	borbotarán
	conditional	borbotaría	borbotarías	borbotaría	borbotaríamos	borbotaríais	borbotarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	borbote	borbotestú borbotésvos2	borbote	borbotemos	borbotéis	borboten
	imperfect (ra)	borbotara	borbotaras	borbotara	borbotáramos	borbotarais	borbotaran
	imperfect (se)	borbotase	borbotases	borbotase	borbotásemos	borbotaseis	borbotasen
	future1	borbotare	borbotares	borbotare	borbotáremos	borbotareis	borbotaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		borbotatú borbotávos	borbote	borbotemos	borbotad	borboten
	negative		no borbotes	no borbote	no borbotemos	no borbotéis	no borboten

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

Related terms

• borbotear

 

Further reading

• “borbotar”, 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