parpadear
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From párpado (“eyelid”) + -ear.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
parpadear (first-person singular present parpadeo, first-person singular preterite parpadeé, past participle parpadeado)
- to blink (light or eyes)
- 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “Sensini”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:
- La vida en Buenos Aires, me consolé, debia de ser rápida, explosiva, sin tiempo para nada, sólo para respirar y parpadear.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to bat one's eyelids, to flutter the eyelids
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of parpadear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
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Further reading[edit]
- “parpadear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014