lenguarse la traba
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A hyperthesis of trabarse la lengua (“to fumble with one's tongue, to stammer, to stutter”), as a metasemantic emphasis on the act of messing with one's words.
Verb
[edit]lenguarse la traba (impersonal, third-person singular present se lengua la traba, third-person singular preterite se lenguó la traba, past participle lenguado la traba)
- (impersonal, colloquial) Synonym of trabar la lengua: to fumble with one's tongue, to stammer, to stutter [with dative]
- Se me lengua la traba cuando hablo en público.
- I stutter when I speak in public.
- 1872, Ángel Mondéjar y Mendoza, Luis de Charles, Mambrú, Madrid: J. Rodríguez, Escena XVI, page 28:
- –Es tanta mi emoción, señora mia, que se anudan las gargantas en mis palabras.
–Lo creo, porque se os lengua la traba.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1982 September 15, Luis, “Carta a los amigos sobre mi operación de almorranas”, in Andalán, numbers 364-365, Aragón, España, page 49:
- Y cuando el doctor me dijo: «A operarse tocan», y ya me había tocado, no se me lenguó la traba aunque casi me compuse.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
[edit]| infinitive | lenguarse la traba | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | lenguándose la traba | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | lenguado la traba | — | |||||
| plural | — | — | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| personal non-finite | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| infinitive | — | — | lenguarse la traba | — | — | — | |
| gerund | — | — | lenguándose la traba | — | — | — | |
| indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | — | — | se lengua la traba | — | — | — | |
| imperfect | — | — | se lenguaba la traba | — | — | — | |
| preterite | — | — | se lenguó la traba | — | — | — | |
| future | — | — | se lenguará la traba | — | — | — | |
| conditional | — | — | se lenguaría la traba | — | — | — | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | — | — | se lengüe la traba | — | — | — | |
| imperfect (ra) |
— | — | se lenguara la traba | — | — | — | |
| imperfect (se) |
— | — | se lenguase la traba | — | — | — | |
| future1 | — | — | se lenguare la traba | — | — | — | |
| imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
| affirmative | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| negative | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.