sindicalizar

Spanish

Etymology

From sindical +‎ -izar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /sindikaliˈθaɾ/ [sĩn̪.d̪i.ka.liˈθaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /sindikaliˈsaɾ/ [sĩn̪.d̪i.ka.liˈsaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: sin‧di‧ca‧li‧zar

Verb

sindicalizar (first-person singular present sindicalizo, first-person singular preterite sindicalicé, past participle sindicalizado)

1. (transitive) to unionise

   Synonym: sindicar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of sindicalizar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			sindicalizar
gerund			sindicalizando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		sindicalizado		sindicalizada
		plural		sindicalizados		sindicalizadas
		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	sindicalizo	sindicalizastú sindicalizásvos	sindicaliza	sindicalizamos	sindicalizáis	sindicalizan
	imperfect	sindicalizaba	sindicalizabas	sindicalizaba	sindicalizábamos	sindicalizabais	sindicalizaban
	preterite	sindicalicé	sindicalizaste	sindicalizó	sindicalizamos	sindicalizasteis	sindicalizaron
	future	sindicalizaré	sindicalizarás	sindicalizará	sindicalizaremos	sindicalizaréis	sindicalizarán
	conditional	sindicalizaría	sindicalizarías	sindicalizaría	sindicalizaríamos	sindicalizaríais	sindicalizarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	sindicalice	sindicalicestú sindicalicésvos2	sindicalice	sindicalicemos	sindicalicéis	sindicalicen
	imperfect (ra)	sindicalizara	sindicalizaras	sindicalizara	sindicalizáramos	sindicalizarais	sindicalizaran
	imperfect (se)	sindicalizase	sindicalizases	sindicalizase	sindicalizásemos	sindicalizaseis	sindicalizasen
	future1	sindicalizare	sindicalizares	sindicalizare	sindicalizáremos	sindicalizareis	sindicalizaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		sindicalizatú sindicalizávos	sindicalice	sindicalicemos	sindicalizad	sindicalicen
	negative		no sindicalices	no sindicalice	no sindicalicemos	no sindicalicéis	no sindicalicen

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

Derived terms

• sindicalización

 

Further reading

• “sindicalizar”, 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