cacarear

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cucurire, which is imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kakaɾeˈaɾ/ [ka.ka.ɾeˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧ca‧re‧ar

Verb

cacarear (first-person singular present cacareo, first-person singular preterite cacareé, past participle cacareado)

1. (transitive) to boast about, to exaggerate the importance of
   • a. 1910, Julio Herrera y Reissig, La granja:

     No faltan más que el agua bendita y el hisopo,
     para mugir las cándidas consejas del pesebre
     y cacarear en ronda las fábulas de Esopo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (intransitive) to cackle; to laugh loudly
3. (intransitive) to cackle (bird)
   • 2023, Daniel A. Olivas, Cómo Salir con un Mexicano Volador: Relatos Nuevos y Escogidos:

     Mientras se acercaban la una a la otra, Belén notó que la gallina iba cacareando

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of cacarear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			cacarear
gerund			cacareando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		cacareado		cacareada
		plural		cacareados		cacareadas
		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	cacareo	cacareastú cacareásvos	cacarea	cacareamos	cacareáis	cacarean
	imperfect	cacareaba	cacareabas	cacareaba	cacareábamos	cacareabais	cacareaban
	preterite	cacareé	cacareaste	cacareó	cacareamos	cacareasteis	cacarearon
	future	cacarearé	cacarearás	cacareará	cacarearemos	cacarearéis	cacarearán
	conditional	cacarearía	cacarearías	cacarearía	cacarearíamos	cacarearíais	cacarearían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	cacaree	cacareestú cacareésvos2	cacaree	cacareemos	cacareéis	cacareen
	imperfect (ra)	cacareara	cacarearas	cacareara	cacareáramos	cacarearais	cacarearan
	imperfect (se)	cacarease	cacareases	cacarease	cacareásemos	cacareaseis	cacareasen
	future1	cacareare	cacareares	cacareare	cacareáremos	cacareareis	cacarearen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		cacareatú cacareávos	cacaree	cacareemos	cacaread	cacareen
	negative		no cacarees	no cacaree	no cacareemos	no cacareéis	no cacareen

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

Derived terms

• cacareador
• cacareo
• como el gallo de Morón, sin pluma y cacareando

 

See also

• carcajada

Further reading

• “cacarear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28