aquellar
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom aquello (“that (over there)”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /akeˈʝaɾ/ [a.keˈʝaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
- IPA(key): /akeˈʎaɾ/ [a.keˈʎaɾ] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /akeˈʃaɾ/ [a.keˈʃaɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /akeˈʒaɾ/ [a.keˈʒaɾ] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
- IPA(key): /akeˈaɾ/ [a.keˈaɾ] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: a‧que‧llar
Verb
editaquellar (first-person singular present aquello, first-person singular preterite aquellé, past participle aquellado) (obsolete, colloquial)
- (transitive) Used as a placeholder for any verb, usually when the speaker doesn't remember it, doesn't know it, or attempts to avoid it.
- Él aquelló toda la casa.
- He cleaned the entire house. (the speaker didn't say the word "limpió")
- Aquellá lo que tiraste, rápido.
- Pick up what you dropped, quickly. (the speaker didn't say the word "recogé")
- 1989, Marcial Morera Pérez, “El verbo español «aquellar»: su definición semántica”, in Anuario del Archivo Histórico Insular de Fuerteventura[1], number 2, page 241:
- Aquella planchita hay que aquellarla para el otro lado
- We need to move that slab to the other side.
- (pronominal) Used as a subsitution of any verb, usually when the speaker doesn't remember it, doesn't know it, or attempts to avoid it.
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of aquellar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of aquellar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Further reading
edit- “aquellar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
- Marcial Morera Pérez (1989), “El verbo español «aquellar»: su definición semántica”, in Tebeto: Anuario del Archivo Histórico Insular de Fuerteventura, number 2, Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura, Spain, →ISSN, pages 235-248
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