huir
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish fuir~foir, from Vulgar Latin *fugīre, from Latin fugere, fugiō, from Proto-Italic *fugiō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg-. Cognate with French fuir, Portuguese fugir, Galician fuxir, Asturian fugir, Catalan fugir.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]huir (first-person singular present huyo, first-person singular preterite hui, past participle huido)
- to flee, to run away
- 2025 November 26, “Juez federal dice que los oficiales de inmigración en Colorado solo pueden arrestar a quienes corren el riesgo de huir”, in CNN en Español[1], sourced from Associated Press:
- Un juez federal dictaminó el martes que los oficiales de inmigración en Colorado solo pueden arrestar a personas sin una orden judicial si creen que es probable que esas personas huyan.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to escape
- Synonym: escapar
- to avoid
- Synonym: evitar
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of huir (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
| infinitive | huir | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | huyendo | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | huido | huida | |||||
| plural | huidos | huidas | |||||
| 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 | huyo | huyestú huisvos |
huye | huimos | huis | huyen | |
| imperfect | huía | huías | huía | huíamos | huíais | huían | |
| preterite | hui | huiste | huyó | huimos | huisteis | huyeron | |
| future | huiré | huirás | huirá | huiremos | huiréis | huirán | |
| conditional | huiría | huirías | huiría | huiríamos | huiríais | huirían | |
| subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
| present | huya | huyastú huyásvos2 |
huya | huyamos | huyáis | huyan | |
| imperfect (ra) |
huyera | huyeras | huyera | huyéramos | huyerais | huyeran | |
| imperfect (se) |
huyese | huyeses | huyese | huyésemos | huyeseis | huyesen | |
| future1 | huyere | huyeres | huyere | huyéremos | huyereis | huyeren | |
| imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
| affirmative | huyetú huivos |
huya | huyamos | huid | huyan | ||
| negative | no huyas | no huya | no huyamos | no huyáis | no huyan | ||
Selected combined forms of huir
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
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[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “huir”, 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
- “huir”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Uncertainties] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN
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