despilfarrar

Spanish

Etymology

From pelfa, variant of felpa (“rag”, literally “felt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /despilfaˈraɾ/ [d̪es.pil.faˈraɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: des‧pil‧fa‧rrar

Verb

despilfarrar (first-person singular present despilfarro, first-person singular preterite despilfarré, past participle despilfarrado)

1. (transitive) to squander

   Synonyms: farrear, derrochar, desperdiciar, malbaratar, malgastar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of despilfarrar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			despilfarrar
gerund			despilfarrando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		despilfarrado		despilfarrada
		plural		despilfarrados		despilfarradas
		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	despilfarro	despilfarrastú despilfarrásvos	despilfarra	despilfarramos	despilfarráis	despilfarran
	imperfect	despilfarraba	despilfarrabas	despilfarraba	despilfarrábamos	despilfarrabais	despilfarraban
	preterite	despilfarré	despilfarraste	despilfarró	despilfarramos	despilfarrasteis	despilfarraron
	future	despilfarraré	despilfarrarás	despilfarrará	despilfarraremos	despilfarraréis	despilfarrarán
	conditional	despilfarraría	despilfarrarías	despilfarraría	despilfarraríamos	despilfarraríais	despilfarrarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	despilfarre	despilfarrestú despilfarrésvos2	despilfarre	despilfarremos	despilfarréis	despilfarren
	imperfect (ra)	despilfarrara	despilfarraras	despilfarrara	despilfarráramos	despilfarrarais	despilfarraran
	imperfect (se)	despilfarrase	despilfarrases	despilfarrase	despilfarrásemos	despilfarraseis	despilfarrasen
	future1	despilfarrare	despilfarrares	despilfarrare	despilfarráremos	despilfarrareis	despilfarraren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		despilfarratú despilfarrávos	despilfarre	despilfarremos	despilfarrad	despilfarren
	negative		no despilfarres	no despilfarre	no despilfarremos	no despilfarréis	no despilfarren

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

Derived terms

• despilfarro

 

Further reading

• “despilfarrar”, 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