escarbar
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin scarifāre, from Ancient Greek σκαριφᾶσθαι (skariphâsthai), from σκάριφος (skáriphos, “writing, drawing, sketching”). Cognate with English scarify.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]escarbar (first-person singular present escarbo, first-person singular preterite escarbé, past participle escarbado)
- (transitive) to scratch, scrape, paw, dig (the ground)
- (transitive) to clean, pick (one's teeth, ears, nose)
- (transitive) to poke (a fire)
- (transitive) to dig about; poke about
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of escarbar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | |||||||
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gerund | |||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | |||||||
plural | |||||||
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 | vos |
tú||||||
imperfect | |||||||
preterite | |||||||
future | |||||||
conditional | |||||||
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | vos2 |
tú||||||
imperfect (ra) |
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imperfect (se) |
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future1 | |||||||
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | vos |
tú||||||
negative | no escarbes | no escarbe | no escarbemos | no escarbéis | no escarben |
Selected combined forms of escarbar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
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1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
with infinitive | |||||||
dative | , | , | |||||
accusative | , , | , , | |||||
with gerund | |||||||
dative | , | , | |||||
accusative | , , | , , | |||||
with informal second-person singular tú imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | , | not used | , | ||||
with informal second-person singular vos imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | , | not used | , | ||||
with formal second-person singular imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | , | not used | ||||
accusative | not used | , , | not used | , | |||
with first-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | not used | , | , | ||||
with informal second-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | ||||||
accusative | not used | , | , | ||||
with formal second-person plural imperative | |||||||
dative | not used | not used | , | ||||
accusative | not used | , | not used | , , |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “escarbar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28