tintinear

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tintineˈaɾ/ [t̪ĩn̪.t̪i.neˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: tin‧ti‧ne‧ar

Verb

tintinear (first-person singular present tintineo, first-person singular preterite tintineé, past participle tintineado)

1. (intransitive) to jingle, to tinkle, to ting, to clink

Conjugation

    Conjugation of tintinear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			tintinear
gerund			tintineando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		tintineado		tintineada
		plural		tintineados		tintineadas
		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	tintineo	tintineastú tintineásvos	tintinea	tintineamos	tintineáis	tintinean
	imperfect	tintineaba	tintineabas	tintineaba	tintineábamos	tintineabais	tintineaban
	preterite	tintineé	tintineaste	tintineó	tintineamos	tintineasteis	tintinearon
	future	tintinearé	tintinearás	tintineará	tintinearemos	tintinearéis	tintinearán
	conditional	tintinearía	tintinearías	tintinearía	tintinearíamos	tintinearíais	tintinearían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	tintinee	tintineestú tintineésvos2	tintinee	tintineemos	tintineéis	tintineen
	imperfect (ra)	tintineara	tintinearas	tintineara	tintineáramos	tintinearais	tintinearan
	imperfect (se)	tintinease	tintineases	tintinease	tintineásemos	tintineaseis	tintineasen
	future1	tintineare	tintineares	tintineare	tintineáremos	tintineareis	tintinearen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		tintineatú tintineávos	tintinee	tintineemos	tintinead	tintineen
	negative		no tintinees	no tintinee	no tintineemos	no tintineéis	no tintineen

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

Derived terms

• tintineo

 

Further reading

• “tintinear”, 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