desatornillar

Spanish

Alternative forms

• destornillar

Etymology

From des- +‎ atornillar, from tornillo, from torno, from Latin tornus, from Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos), from Proto-Indo-European *torh₂no-, from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, bore, twist”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /desatoɾniˈʝaɾ/ [d̪e.sa.t̪oɾ.niˈʝaɾ]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /desatoɾniˈʝaɾ/ [d̪e.sa.t̪oɾ.niˈʝaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /desatoɾniˈʎaɾ/ [d̪e.sa.t̪oɾ.niˈʎaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /desatoɾniˈʃaɾ/ [d̪e.sa.t̪oɾ.niˈʃaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /desatoɾniˈʒaɾ/ [d̪e.sa.t̪oɾ.niˈʒaɾ]

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: de‧sa‧tor‧ni‧llar

Verb

desatornillar (first-person singular present desatornillo, first-person singular preterite desatornillé, past participle desatornillado)

1. (transitive) to unscrew

   Antonym: atornillar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of desatornillar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			desatornillar
gerund			desatornillando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		desatornillado		desatornillada
		plural		desatornillados		desatornilladas
		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	desatornillo	desatornillastú desatornillásvos	desatornilla	desatornillamos	desatornilláis	desatornillan
	imperfect	desatornillaba	desatornillabas	desatornillaba	desatornillábamos	desatornillabais	desatornillaban
	preterite	desatornillé	desatornillaste	desatornilló	desatornillamos	desatornillasteis	desatornillaron
	future	desatornillaré	desatornillarás	desatornillará	desatornillaremos	desatornillaréis	desatornillarán
	conditional	desatornillaría	desatornillarías	desatornillaría	desatornillaríamos	desatornillaríais	desatornillarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	desatornille	desatornillestú desatornillésvos2	desatornille	desatornillemos	desatornilléis	desatornillen
	imperfect (ra)	desatornillara	desatornillaras	desatornillara	desatornilláramos	desatornillarais	desatornillaran
	imperfect (se)	desatornillase	desatornillases	desatornillase	desatornillásemos	desatornillaseis	desatornillasen
	future1	desatornillare	desatornillares	desatornillare	desatornilláremos	desatornillareis	desatornillaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		desatornillatú desatornillávos	desatornille	desatornillemos	desatornillad	desatornillen
	negative		no desatornilles	no desatornille	no desatornillemos	no desatornilléis	no desatornillen

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

Further reading

• “desatornillar”, 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