graznar

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin (Iberian dialect) *gracināre, related to Late Latin gracitāre and gracillāre, from the same imitative/onomatopoetic root as Latin graculus (“jackdaw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ɡɾaθˈnaɾ/ [ɡɾaθ̬ˈnaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ɡɾasˈnaɾ/ [ɡɾazˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: graz‧nar

Verb

graznar (first-person singular present grazno, first-person singular preterite grazné, past participle graznado)

1. to squawk
2. to caw

Conjugation

    Conjugation of graznar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			graznar
gerund			graznando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		graznado		graznada
		plural		graznados		graznadas
		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	grazno	graznastú graznásvos	grazna	graznamos	graznáis	graznan
	imperfect	graznaba	graznabas	graznaba	graznábamos	graznabais	graznaban
	preterite	grazné	graznaste	graznó	graznamos	graznasteis	graznaron
	future	graznaré	graznarás	graznará	graznaremos	graznaréis	graznarán
	conditional	graznaría	graznarías	graznaría	graznaríamos	graznaríais	graznarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	grazne	graznestú graznésvos2	grazne	graznemos	graznéis	graznen
	imperfect (ra)	graznara	graznaras	graznara	graznáramos	graznarais	graznaran
	imperfect (se)	graznase	graznases	graznase	graznásemos	graznaseis	graznasen
	future1	graznare	graznares	graznare	graznáremos	graznareis	graznaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		graznatú graznávos	grazne	graznemos	graznad	graznen
	negative		no graznes	no grazne	no graznemos	no graznéis	no graznen

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

Further reading

• “graznar”, 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