tabletear

Spanish

Etymology

From tableta +‎ -ear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tableteˈaɾ/ [t̪a.β̞le.t̪eˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ta‧ble‧te‧ar

Verb

tabletear (first-person singular present tableteo, first-person singular preterite tableteé, past participle tableteado)

1. to rattle

Conjugation

    Conjugation of tabletear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			tabletear
gerund			tableteando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		tableteado		tableteada
		plural		tableteados		tableteadas
		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	tableteo	tableteastú tableteásvos	tabletea	tableteamos	tableteáis	tabletean
	imperfect	tableteaba	tableteabas	tableteaba	tableteábamos	tableteabais	tableteaban
	preterite	tableteé	tableteaste	tableteó	tableteamos	tableteasteis	tabletearon
	future	tabletearé	tabletearás	tableteará	tabletearemos	tabletearéis	tabletearán
	conditional	tabletearía	tabletearías	tabletearía	tabletearíamos	tabletearíais	tabletearían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	tabletee	tableteestú tableteésvos2	tabletee	tableteemos	tableteéis	tableteen
	imperfect (ra)	tableteara	tabletearas	tableteara	tableteáramos	tabletearais	tabletearan
	imperfect (se)	tabletease	tableteases	tabletease	tableteásemos	tableteaseis	tableteasen
	future1	tableteare	tableteares	tableteare	tableteáremos	tableteareis	tabletearen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		tableteatú tableteávos	tabletee	tableteemos	tabletead	tableteen
	negative		no tabletees	no tabletee	no tableteemos	no tableteéis	no tableteen

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

Derived terms

• tableteo

 

Further reading

• “tabletear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16