cohechar

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cōnfectāre, frequentative of Latin cōnficiō, through its past participle cōnfectus. Compare Portuguese confeitar, Italian confettare and English confect.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koeˈt͡ʃaɾ/ [ko.eˈt͡ʃaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: co‧he‧char

Verb

cohechar (first-person singular present cohecho, first-person singular preterite coheché, past participle cohechado)

1. (transitive) to bribe (a government official)

   Synonym: sobornar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of cohechar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			cohechar
gerund			cohechando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		cohechado		cohechada
		plural		cohechados		cohechadas
		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	cohecho	cohechastú cohechásvos	cohecha	cohechamos	cohecháis	cohechan
	imperfect	cohechaba	cohechabas	cohechaba	cohechábamos	cohechabais	cohechaban
	preterite	coheché	cohechaste	cohechó	cohechamos	cohechasteis	cohecharon
	future	cohecharé	cohecharás	cohechará	cohecharemos	cohecharéis	cohecharán
	conditional	cohecharía	cohecharías	cohecharía	cohecharíamos	cohecharíais	cohecharían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	coheche	cohechestú cohechésvos2	coheche	cohechemos	cohechéis	cohechen
	imperfect (ra)	cohechara	cohecharas	cohechara	cohecháramos	cohecharais	cohecharan
	imperfect (se)	cohechase	cohechases	cohechase	cohechásemos	cohechaseis	cohechasen
	future1	cohechare	cohechares	cohechare	cohecháremos	cohechareis	cohecharen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		cohechatú cohechávos	coheche	cohechemos	cohechad	cohechen
	negative		no coheches	no coheche	no cohechemos	no cohechéis	no cohechen

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

Related terms

• cohecho

 

Further reading

• “cohechar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28