botear

Spanish

Verb

botear (first-person singular present boteo, first-person singular preterite boteé, past participle boteado)

1. to raise money for charity by getting people to give donations to a collection box

Conjugation

    Conjugation of botear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			botear
gerund			boteando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		boteado		boteada
		plural		boteados		boteadas
		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	boteo	boteastú boteásvos	botea	boteamos	boteáis	botean
	imperfect	boteaba	boteabas	boteaba	boteábamos	boteabais	boteaban
	preterite	boteé	boteaste	boteó	boteamos	boteasteis	botearon
	future	botearé	botearás	boteará	botearemos	botearéis	botearán
	conditional	botearía	botearías	botearía	botearíamos	botearíais	botearían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	botee	boteestú boteésvos2	botee	boteemos	boteéis	boteen
	imperfect (ra)	boteara	botearas	boteara	boteáramos	botearais	botearan
	imperfect (se)	botease	boteases	botease	boteásemos	boteaseis	boteasen
	future1	boteare	boteares	boteare	boteáremos	boteareis	botearen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		boteatú boteávos	botee	boteemos	botead	boteen
	negative		no botees	no botee	no boteemos	no boteéis	no boteen

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

Further reading

• “botear”, 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