currelar

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Caló currelar (“to work”), equivalent to currar (“to carry out”) +‎ -elar (intensifier), cf. Romani kerel (“to do”) and Sanskrit कृणोति (kṛṇoti, “to make”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kureˈlaɾ/ [ku.reˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cu‧rre‧lar

Verb

currelar (first-person singular present currelo, first-person singular preterite currelé, past participle currelado)

1. (Spain, colloquial) to work

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trabajar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of currelar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			currelar
gerund			currelando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		currelado		currelada
		plural		currelados		curreladas
		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	currelo	currelastú currelásvos	currela	currelamos	curreláis	currelan
	imperfect	currelaba	currelabas	currelaba	currelábamos	currelabais	currelaban
	preterite	currelé	currelaste	curreló	currelamos	currelasteis	currelaron
	future	currelaré	currelarás	currelará	currelaremos	currelaréis	currelarán
	conditional	currelaría	currelarías	currelaría	currelaríamos	currelaríais	currelarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	currele	currelestú currelésvos2	currele	currelemos	curreléis	currelen
	imperfect (ra)	currelara	currelaras	currelara	curreláramos	currelarais	currelaran
	imperfect (se)	currelase	currelases	currelase	currelásemos	currelaseis	currelasen
	future1	currelare	currelares	currelare	curreláremos	currelareis	currelaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		currelatú currelávos	currele	currelemos	currelad	currelen
	negative		no curreles	no currele	no currelemos	no curreléis	no currelen

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

Related terms

• currar

 

Further reading

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