parpadear
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From párpado (“eyelid”) + -ear.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]parpadear (first-person singular present parpadeo, first-person singular preterite parpadeé, past participle parpadeado)
- to blink (light or eyes)
- 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “Sensini”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:
- La vida en Buenos Aires, me consolé, debia de ser rápida, explosiva, sin tiempo para nada, sólo para respirar y parpadear.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to bat one's eyelids, to flutter the eyelids
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of parpadear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “parpadear”, 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