zarandear
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[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /θaɾandeˈaɾ/ [θa.ɾãn̪.d̪eˈaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /saɾandeˈaɾ/ [sa.ɾãn̪.d̪eˈaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: za‧ran‧de‧ar
Verb
[edit]zarandear (first-person singular present zarandeo, first-person singular preterite zarandeé, past participle zarandeado)
- (transitive) to sift, sieve
- Synonym: cerner
- (transitive) to shake, jiggle
- 2020 July 13, “Feijóo conquista su cuarta mayoría absoluta y Urkullu se refuerza”, in El País[1]:
- Para los dos partidos en el Gobierno de España, la jornada fue más aciaga, sobre todo para Podemos, que salió zarandeado: quedó fuera del Parlamento gallego y perdió la mitad de su representación en Euskadi.
- For the two parties in the Spanish Government, the day was more unfortunate, especially for Podemos, which came out shaken: it was left out of the Galician Parliament and lost half of its representation in Euskadi.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of zarandear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of zarandear
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Further reading
[edit]- “zarandear”, 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