okupar

Borrowed from Spanish ocupar.

• Hyphenation: o‧ku‧par
• IPA^(key): /ʔokuˈpaɾ/

okupár

1. to occupy
2. to keep someone occupied, busy

   Synonym: sibot

Borrowed from Spanish ocupar.

• Hyphenation: o‧ku‧par
• IPA^(key): /ʔoˈkupaɾ/

okupar

1. to occupy
2. to move in

okupar (present tense okupas, past tense okupis, future tense okupos, imperative okupez, conditional okupus)

1. (transitive) to occupy

    Conjugation of okupar

		present		past		future
infinitive		okupar		okupir		okupor
tense		okupas		okupis		okupos
conditional		okupus
imperative		okupez
adjective active participle		okupanta		okupinta		okuponta
adverbial active participle		okupante		okupinte		okuponte
nominal active participle	singular	okupanto		okupinto		okuponto
	plural	okupanti		okupinti		okuponti
adjective passive participle		okupata		okupita		okupota
adverbial passive participle		okupate		okupite		okupote
nominal passive participle	singular	okupato		okupito		okupoto
	plural	okupati		okupiti		okupoti

From ocupar (“to occupy”), intentionally misspelled with a K, letter that reflects a willingness to transgress orthographic rules.

okupar (first-person singular present okupo, first-person singular preterite okupé, past participle okupado)

1. (slang, Spain) to squat
   • 2020 July 10, “El PP acusa al PSOE de querer “cargarse la Monarquía y dar la independencia a Cataluña y Euskadi””, in El País‎:

     En su discurso apocalíptico, el candidato a lehendakari de la coalición PP-Cs, Carlos Iturgaiz, ha llegado a decir que la gente tiene miedo de salir de casa por si se la okupan: “No puede ser que las víctimas sean los okupas y los culpables los propietarios. Los okupas campan a sus anchas. ¿Pero a dónde hemos llegado en esta tierra, que no podemos salir de fin de semana, de supermercado, al cine o a dar paseo sin miedo a que vengan a tu casa?”.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

okupar is intentionally misspelled to emphasize its difference from ocupar; ocupar simply referring to the occupation of a residence (compare occupy) and okupar referring to the occupation of an abandoned, uninhabited, or unused residence without seeking permission from the owner (squat). However, the word is fairly nuanced and is not totally synonymous with squat (see Squatting § Spain as well as Movimiento okupa).

It is one of a few Spanish verbs containing a K (as K is not native to Spanish; other verbs with a K are derived from loanwords: bunkerizar, kilometrar). The Diccionario de la Real Academia Española officially recognizes okupar as well as okupa while noting that the misspelling is questionable.

• okupa
• okupación
• okupado

• “okupar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Movimiento okupa on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es