dentellear

Spanish

Etymology

From diente (“tooth”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /denteʝeˈaɾ/ [d̪ẽn̪.t̪e.ʝeˈaɾ]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /denteʝeˈaɾ/ [d̪ẽn̪.t̪e.ʝeˈaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /denteʎeˈaɾ/ [d̪ẽn̪.t̪e.ʎeˈaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /denteʃeˈaɾ/ [d̪ẽn̪.t̪e.ʃeˈaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /denteʒeˈaɾ/ [d̪ẽn̪.t̪e.ʒeˈaɾ]

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: den‧te‧lle‧ar

Verb

dentellear (first-person singular present dentelleo, first-person singular preterite dentelleé, past participle dentelleado)

1. to nibble

Conjugation

    Conjugation of dentellear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			dentellear
gerund			dentelleando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		dentelleado		dentelleada
		plural		dentelleados		dentelleadas
		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	dentelleo	dentelleastú dentelleásvos	dentellea	dentelleamos	dentelleáis	dentellean
	imperfect	dentelleaba	dentelleabas	dentelleaba	dentelleábamos	dentelleabais	dentelleaban
	preterite	dentelleé	dentelleaste	dentelleó	dentelleamos	dentelleasteis	dentellearon
	future	dentellearé	dentellearás	dentelleará	dentellearemos	dentellearéis	dentellearán
	conditional	dentellearía	dentellearías	dentellearía	dentellearíamos	dentellearíais	dentellearían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	dentellee	dentelleestú dentelleésvos2	dentellee	dentelleemos	dentelleéis	dentelleen
	imperfect (ra)	dentelleara	dentellearas	dentelleara	dentelleáramos	dentellearais	dentellearan
	imperfect (se)	dentellease	dentelleases	dentellease	dentelleásemos	dentelleaseis	dentelleasen
	future1	dentelleare	dentelleares	dentelleare	dentelleáremos	dentelleareis	dentellearen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		dentelleatú dentelleávos	dentellee	dentelleemos	dentellead	dentelleen
	negative		no dentellees	no dentellee	no dentelleemos	no dentelleéis	no dentelleen

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

Further reading

• “dentellear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014