churruscar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃurusˈkaɾ/ [t͡ʃu.rusˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: chu‧rrus‧car

Verb

churruscar (first-person singular present churrusco, first-person singular preterite churrusqué, past participle churruscado)

1. to crisp, burn, frazzle
   • 2015 November 15, “Columna”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Aunque, ya digo, faltan unos hombrecillos de Magritte un poco churruscados, al modo del pescaíto frito.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of churruscar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			churruscar
gerund			churruscando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		churruscado		churruscada
		plural		churruscados		churruscadas
		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	churrusco	churruscastú churruscásvos	churrusca	churruscamos	churruscáis	churruscan
	imperfect	churruscaba	churruscabas	churruscaba	churruscábamos	churruscabais	churruscaban
	preterite	churrusqué	churruscaste	churruscó	churruscamos	churruscasteis	churruscaron
	future	churruscaré	churruscarás	churruscará	churruscaremos	churruscaréis	churruscarán
	conditional	churruscaría	churruscarías	churruscaría	churruscaríamos	churruscaríais	churruscarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	churrusque	churrusquestú churrusquésvos2	churrusque	churrusquemos	churrusquéis	churrusquen
	imperfect (ra)	churruscara	churruscaras	churruscara	churruscáramos	churruscarais	churruscaran
	imperfect (se)	churruscase	churruscases	churruscase	churruscásemos	churruscaseis	churruscasen
	future1	churruscare	churruscares	churruscare	churruscáremos	churruscareis	churruscaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		churruscatú churruscávos	churrusque	churrusquemos	churruscad	churrusquen
	negative		no churrusques	no churrusque	no churrusquemos	no churrusquéis	no churrusquen

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

Further reading

• “churruscar”, 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