cojear

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Spanish

Etymology

From cojo +‎ -ear.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /koxeˈaɾ/
Rhymes: -aɾ
Syllabification: co‧je‧ar

Verb

cojear (first-person singular present cojeo, first-person singular preterite cojeé, past participle cojeado)

(intransitive) to limp (walk lamely)
- 1997, José Miguel Cejas, Montse Grases: biografía breve, Ediciones Rialp, →ISBN, page 78:
  Un domingo de enero por la tarde Lía se extrañó al ver que Montse cojeaba un poco.
  One Sunday afternoon in January Lía was surprised to see Montse limping a little.
(intransitive, of furniture) to wobble (move with a rocking motion)
- 2004, Mavis Dora Alvarez Licea, La loca de las yagrumas y otras mujeres:
  Las viejas sillas cojean sobre el piso de cemento desnivelado y cuarteado de rajaduras.
  The old chairs wobble on the uneven, cracked cement floor.

Conjugation

Conjugation of cojear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

		singular			plural
infinitive			cojear
gerund			cojeando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		cojeado		cojeada
		plural		cojeados		cojeadas
		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	cojeo	cojeas^{^tú} cojeás^{^vos}	cojea	cojeamos	cojeáis	cojean
	imperfect	cojeaba	cojeabas	cojeaba	cojeábamos	cojeabais	cojeaban
	preterite	cojeé	cojeaste	cojeó	cojeamos	cojeasteis	cojearon
	future	cojearé	cojearás	cojeará	cojearemos	cojearéis	cojearán
	conditional	cojearía	cojearías	cojearía	cojearíamos	cojearíais	cojearían

subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	cojee	cojees^{^tú} cojeés^{^vos²}	cojee	cojeemos	cojeéis	cojeen
	imperfect (ra)	cojeara	cojearas	cojeara	cojeáramos	cojearais	cojearan
	imperfect (se)	cojease	cojeases	cojease	cojeásemos	cojeaseis	cojeasen
	future¹	cojeare	cojeares	cojeare	cojeáremos	cojeareis	cojearen

imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		cojea^{^tú} cojeá^{^vos}	cojee	cojeemos	cojead	cojeen
	negative		no cojees	no cojee	no cojeemos	no cojeéis	no cojeen

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

See also

saber de qué pie cojea

Further reading

“cojear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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