delirar

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēlīrāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deliˈɾaɾ/ [d̪e.liˈɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: de‧li‧rar

Verb

delirar (first-person singular present deliro, first-person singular preterite deliré, past participle delirado)

1. to be delirious

Conjugation

    Conjugation of delirar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			delirar
gerund			delirando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		delirado		delirada
		plural		delirados		deliradas
		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	deliro	delirastú delirásvos	delira	deliramos	deliráis	deliran
	imperfect	deliraba	delirabas	deliraba	delirábamos	delirabais	deliraban
	preterite	deliré	deliraste	deliró	deliramos	delirasteis	deliraron
	future	deliraré	delirarás	delirará	deliraremos	deliraréis	delirarán
	conditional	deliraría	delirarías	deliraría	deliraríamos	deliraríais	delirarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	delire	delirestú delirésvos2	delire	deliremos	deliréis	deliren
	imperfect (ra)	delirara	deliraras	delirara	deliráramos	delirarais	deliraran
	imperfect (se)	delirase	delirases	delirase	delirásemos	deliraseis	delirasen
	future1	delirare	delirares	delirare	deliráremos	delirareis	deliraren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		deliratú delirávos	delire	deliremos	delirad	deliren
	negative		no delires	no delire	no deliremos	no deliréis	no deliren

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

Related terms

• delirante
• delirio

Further reading

• “delirar”, 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