borbotear

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boɾboteˈaɾ/ [boɾ.β̞o.t̪eˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bor‧bo‧te‧ar

Verb

borbotear (first-person singular present borboteo, first-person singular preterite borboteé, past participle borboteado)

1. (intransitive) to bubble, burble

Conjugation

    Conjugation of borbotear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			borbotear
gerund			borboteando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		borboteado		borboteada
		plural		borboteados		borboteadas
		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	borboteo	borboteastú borboteásvos	borbotea	borboteamos	borboteáis	borbotean
	imperfect	borboteaba	borboteabas	borboteaba	borboteábamos	borboteabais	borboteaban
	preterite	borboteé	borboteaste	borboteó	borboteamos	borboteasteis	borbotearon
	future	borbotearé	borbotearás	borboteará	borbotearemos	borbotearéis	borbotearán
	conditional	borbotearía	borbotearías	borbotearía	borbotearíamos	borbotearíais	borbotearían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	borbotee	borboteestú borboteésvos2	borbotee	borboteemos	borboteéis	borboteen
	imperfect (ra)	borboteara	borbotearas	borboteara	borboteáramos	borbotearais	borbotearan
	imperfect (se)	borbotease	borboteases	borbotease	borboteásemos	borboteaseis	borboteasen
	future1	borboteare	borboteares	borboteare	borboteáremos	borboteareis	borbotearen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		borboteatú borboteávos	borbotee	borboteemos	borbotead	borboteen
	negative		no borbotees	no borbotee	no borboteemos	no borboteéis	no borboteen

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

Further reading

• “borbotear”, 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