pulsear

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pulseˈaɾ/ [pul.seˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pul‧se‧ar

Verb

pulsear (first-person singular present pulseo, first-person singular preterite pulseé, past participle pulseado)

1. (Latin America) arm-wrestle (to compete in an arm-wrestle)

   Synonym: (Spain) echar un pulso

2. (Latin America, figurative, by extension) arm-wrestle (to struggle (with) for dominance)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of pulsear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			pulsear
gerund			pulseando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		pulseado		pulseada
		plural		pulseados		pulseadas
		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	pulseo	pulseastú pulseásvos	pulsea	pulseamos	pulseáis	pulsean
	imperfect	pulseaba	pulseabas	pulseaba	pulseábamos	pulseabais	pulseaban
	preterite	pulseé	pulseaste	pulseó	pulseamos	pulseasteis	pulsearon
	future	pulsearé	pulsearás	pulseará	pulsearemos	pulsearéis	pulsearán
	conditional	pulsearía	pulsearías	pulsearía	pulsearíamos	pulsearíais	pulsearían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	pulsee	pulseestú pulseésvos2	pulsee	pulseemos	pulseéis	pulseen
	imperfect (ra)	pulseara	pulsearas	pulseara	pulseáramos	pulsearais	pulsearan
	imperfect (se)	pulsease	pulseases	pulsease	pulseásemos	pulseaseis	pulseasen
	future1	pulseare	pulseares	pulseare	pulseáremos	pulseareis	pulsearen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		pulseatú pulseávos	pulsee	pulseemos	pulsead	pulseen
	negative		no pulsees	no pulsee	no pulseemos	no pulseéis	no pulseen

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

Further reading

• “pulsear”, 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