colchar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kolˈt͡ʃaɾ/ [kolʲˈt͡ʃaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: col‧char

Verb

colchar (first-person singular present colcho, first-person singular preterite colché, past participle colchado)

1. Alternative form of acolchar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of colchar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			colchar
gerund			colchando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		colchado		colchada
		plural		colchados		colchadas
		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	colcho	colchastú colchásvos	colcha	colchamos	colcháis	colchan
	imperfect	colchaba	colchabas	colchaba	colchábamos	colchabais	colchaban
	preterite	colché	colchaste	colchó	colchamos	colchasteis	colcharon
	future	colcharé	colcharás	colchará	colcharemos	colcharéis	colcharán
	conditional	colcharía	colcharías	colcharía	colcharíamos	colcharíais	colcharían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	colche	colchestú colchésvos2	colche	colchemos	colchéis	colchen
	imperfect (ra)	colchara	colcharas	colchara	colcháramos	colcharais	colcharan
	imperfect (se)	colchase	colchases	colchase	colchásemos	colchaseis	colchasen
	future1	colchare	colchares	colchare	colcháremos	colchareis	colcharen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		colchatú colchávos	colche	colchemos	colchad	colchen
	negative		no colches	no colche	no colchemos	no colchéis	no colchen

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

Further reading

• “colchar”, 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