perecear

Spanish

Etymology

From pereza +‎ -ear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /peɾeθeˈaɾ/ [pe.ɾe.θeˈaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /peɾeseˈaɾ/ [pe.ɾe.seˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pe‧re‧ce‧ar

Verb

perecear (first-person singular present pereceo, first-person singular preterite pereceé, past participle pereceado)

1. (colloquial) to postpone, waste time, retard or defer something due to one's laziness, negligence, or sloth

Conjugation

    Conjugation of perecear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			perecear
gerund			pereceando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		pereceado		pereceada
		plural		pereceados		pereceadas
		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	pereceo	pereceastú pereceásvos	perecea	pereceamos	pereceáis	perecean
	imperfect	pereceaba	pereceabas	pereceaba	pereceábamos	pereceabais	pereceaban
	preterite	pereceé	pereceaste	pereceó	pereceamos	pereceasteis	perecearon
	future	perecearé	perecearás	pereceará	perecearemos	perecearéis	perecearán
	conditional	perecearía	perecearías	perecearía	perecearíamos	perecearíais	perecearían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	perecee	pereceestú pereceésvos2	perecee	pereceemos	pereceéis	pereceen
	imperfect (ra)	pereceara	perecearas	pereceara	pereceáramos	perecearais	perecearan
	imperfect (se)	perecease	pereceases	perecease	pereceásemos	pereceaseis	pereceasen
	future1	pereceare	pereceares	pereceare	pereceáremos	pereceareis	perecearen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		pereceatú pereceávos	perecee	pereceemos	perecead	pereceen
	negative		no perecees	no perecee	no pereceemos	no pereceéis	no pereceen

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

Further reading

• “perecear”, 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