cerchar

Spanish

Verb

cerchar (first-person singular present cercho, first-person singular preterite cerché, past participle cerchado)

1. to bend the vine

Conjugation

    Conjugation of cerchar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			cerchar
gerund			cerchando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		cerchado		cerchada
		plural		cerchados		cerchadas
		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	cercho	cerchastú cerchásvos	cercha	cerchamos	cercháis	cerchan
	imperfect	cerchaba	cerchabas	cerchaba	cerchábamos	cerchabais	cerchaban
	preterite	cerché	cerchaste	cerchó	cerchamos	cerchasteis	cercharon
	future	cercharé	cercharás	cerchará	cercharemos	cercharéis	cercharán
	conditional	cercharía	cercharías	cercharía	cercharíamos	cercharíais	cercharían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	cerche	cerchestú cerchésvos2	cerche	cerchemos	cerchéis	cerchen
	imperfect (ra)	cerchara	cercharas	cerchara	cercháramos	cercharais	cercharan
	imperfect (se)	cerchase	cerchases	cerchase	cerchásemos	cerchaseis	cerchasen
	future1	cerchare	cerchares	cerchare	cercháremos	cerchareis	cercharen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		cerchatú cerchávos	cerche	cerchemos	cerchad	cerchen
	negative		no cerches	no cerche	no cerchemos	no cerchéis	no cerchen

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

Further reading

• “cerchar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28