titiritear

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /titiɾiteˈaɾ/ [t̪i.t̪i.ɾi.t̪eˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ti‧ti‧ri‧te‧ar

Verb

titiritear (first-person singular present titiriteo, first-person singular preterite titiriteé, past participle titiriteado)

1. (Honduras) to control like a puppet
   • 2019 October 30, Harold Alvarado Tenorio, “Una ministra calceta”, in El Nacional‎^[1]:

     Y aparece el titiritero Trump sosteniendo a la marioneta Álvaro Uribe, que a su vez titiritea a Iván Duque mientras dos lobos se aparean bajo el pecho de una mujer que dice “Stop Being Poor” seguida por un dólar rojo, o una palanquera con un cocodrilo sobre su cabeza o un malabarista con cabezas humanas, Mickey Mouse y al final, entre otras criaturas, unos “Rascalls” pintando en el mismo muro, en una suerte de Doppelgänger, un Yanqui Go Home.

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Conjugation

    Conjugation of titiritear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			titiritear
gerund			titiriteando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		titiriteado		titiriteada
		plural		titiriteados		titiriteadas
		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	titiriteo	titiriteastú titiriteásvos	titiritea	titiriteamos	titiriteáis	titiritean
	imperfect	titiriteaba	titiriteabas	titiriteaba	titiriteábamos	titiriteabais	titiriteaban
	preterite	titiriteé	titiriteaste	titiriteó	titiriteamos	titiriteasteis	titiritearon
	future	titiritearé	titiritearás	titiriteará	titiritearemos	titiritearéis	titiritearán
	conditional	titiritearía	titiritearías	titiritearía	titiritearíamos	titiritearíais	titiritearían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	titiritee	titiriteestú titiriteésvos2	titiritee	titiriteemos	titiriteéis	titiriteen
	imperfect (ra)	titiriteara	titiritearas	titiriteara	titiriteáramos	titiritearais	titiritearan
	imperfect (se)	titiritease	titiriteases	titiritease	titiriteásemos	titiriteaseis	titiriteasen
	future1	titiriteare	titiriteares	titiriteare	titiriteáremos	titiriteareis	titiritearen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		titiriteatú titiriteávos	titiritee	titiriteemos	titiritead	titiriteen
	negative		no titiritees	no titiritee	no titiriteemos	no titiriteéis	no titiriteen

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

    Selected combined forms of titiritear

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
with infinitive titiritear
	dative	titiritearme	titiritearte	titiritearle, titiritearse	titiritearnos	titiritearos	titiritearles, titiritearse
	accusative	titiritearme	titiritearte	titiritearlo, titiritearla, titiritearse	titiritearnos	titiritearos	titiritearlos, titiritearlas, titiritearse
with gerund titiriteando
	dative	titiriteándome	titiriteándote	titiriteándole, titiriteándose	titiriteándonos	titiriteándoos	titiriteándoles, titiriteándose
	accusative	titiriteándome	titiriteándote	titiriteándolo, titiriteándola, titiriteándose	titiriteándonos	titiriteándoos	titiriteándolos, titiriteándolas, titiriteándose
with informal second-person singular tú imperative titiritea
	dative	titiritéame	titiritéate	titiritéale	titiritéanos	not used	titiritéales
	accusative	titiritéame	titiritéate	titiritéalo, titiritéala	titiritéanos	not used	titiritéalos, titiritéalas
with informal second-person singular vos imperative titiriteá
	dative	titiriteame	titiriteate	titiriteale	titiriteanos	not used	titiriteales
	accusative	titiriteame	titiriteate	titiritealo, titiriteala	titiriteanos	not used	titiritealos, titiritealas
with formal second-person singular imperative titiritee
	dative	titiritéeme	not used	titiritéele, titiritéese	titiritéenos	not used	titiritéeles
	accusative	titiritéeme	not used	titiritéelo, titiritéela, titiritéese	titiritéenos	not used	titiritéelos, titiritéelas
with first-person plural imperative titiriteemos
	dative	not used	titiriteémoste	titiriteémosle	titiriteémonos	titiriteémoos	titiriteémosles
	accusative	not used	titiriteémoste	titiriteémoslo, titiriteémosla	titiriteémonos	titiriteémoos	titiriteémoslos, titiriteémoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative titiritead
	dative	titiriteadme	not used	titiriteadle	titiriteadnos	titiriteaos	titiriteadles
	accusative	titiriteadme	not used	titiriteadlo, titiriteadla	titiriteadnos	titiriteaos	titiriteadlos, titiriteadlas
with formal second-person plural imperative titiriteen
	dative	titiritéenme	not used	titiritéenle	titiritéennos	not used	titiritéenles, titiritéense
	accusative	titiritéenme	not used	titiritéenlo, titiritéenla	titiritéennos	not used	titiritéenlos, titiritéenlas, titiritéense

Further reading

• “titiritear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28