pizcar

Spanish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /piθˈkaɾ/ [piθˈkaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /pisˈkaɾ/ [pisˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: piz‧car

Verb

pizcar (first-person singular present pizco, first-person singular preterite pizqué, past participle pizcado)

1. (transitive) to pinch (to squeeze a small amount of a person's skin)

   Synonym: pellizcar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of pizcar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			pizcar
gerund			pizcando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		pizcado		pizcada
		plural		pizcados		pizcadas
		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	pizco	pizcastú pizcásvos	pizca	pizcamos	pizcáis	pizcan
	imperfect	pizcaba	pizcabas	pizcaba	pizcábamos	pizcabais	pizcaban
	preterite	pizqué	pizcaste	pizcó	pizcamos	pizcasteis	pizcaron
	future	pizcaré	pizcarás	pizcará	pizcaremos	pizcaréis	pizcarán
	conditional	pizcaría	pizcarías	pizcaría	pizcaríamos	pizcaríais	pizcarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	pizque	pizquestú pizquésvos2	pizque	pizquemos	pizquéis	pizquen
	imperfect (ra)	pizcara	pizcaras	pizcara	pizcáramos	pizcarais	pizcaran
	imperfect (se)	pizcase	pizcases	pizcase	pizcásemos	pizcaseis	pizcasen
	future1	pizcare	pizcares	pizcare	pizcáremos	pizcareis	pizcaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		pizcatú pizcávos	pizque	pizquemos	pizcad	pizquen
	negative		no pizques	no pizque	no pizquemos	no pizquéis	no pizquen

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

Derived terms

• pizco

Further reading

• “pizcar”, 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