titubear
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /t͡ʃi.tu.beˈa(ʁ)/ [t͡ʃi.tu.beˈa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /t͡ʃi.tu.beˈa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /t͡ʃi.tu.beˈa(ʁ)/ [t͡ʃi.tu.beˈa(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /t͡ʃi.tu.beˈa(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ti.tuˈbjaɾ/ [ti.tuˈβjaɾ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ti.tuˈbja.ɾi/ [ti.tuˈβja.ɾi]
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /t͡ʃi.tu.beˈa(ʁ)/ [t͡ʃi.tu.beˈa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /t͡ʃi.tu.beˈa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /t͡ʃi.tu.beˈa(ʁ)/ [t͡ʃi.tu.beˈa(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /t͡ʃi.tu.beˈa(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ti.tuˈbjaɾ/ [ti.tuˈβjaɾ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ti.tuˈbja.ɾi/ [ti.tuˈβja.ɾi]
- Hyphenation: ti‧tu‧be‧ar
Verb
titubear (first-person singular present titubeio, first-person singular preterite titubeei, past participle titubeado)
Conjugation
Conjugation of titubear (e becomes ei when stressed) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
| Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-person (eu) |
Second-person (tu) |
Third-person (ele / ela / você) |
First-person (nós) |
Second-person (vós) |
Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
| Infinitive | ||||||
| Impersonal | titubear | |||||
| Personal | titubear | titubeares | titubear | titubearmos | titubeardes | titubearem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| titubeando | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | titubeado | titubeados | ||||
| Feminine | titubeada | titubeadas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | titubeio | titubeias | titubeia | titubeamos | titubeais | titubeiam |
| Imperfect | titubeava | titubeavas | titubeava | titubeávamos | titubeáveis | titubeavam |
| Preterite | titubeei | titubeaste | titubeou | titubeamos1, titubeámos2 | titubeastes | titubearam |
| Pluperfect | titubeara | titubearas | titubeara | titubeáramos | titubeáreis | titubearam |
| Future | titubearei | titubearás | titubeará | titubearemos | titubeareis | titubearão |
| Conditional | titubearia | titubearias | titubearia | titubearíamos | titubearíeis | titubeariam |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | titubeie | titubeies | titubeie | titubeemos | titubeeis | titubeiem |
| Imperfect | titubeasse | titubeasses | titubeasse | titubeássemos | titubeásseis | titubeassem |
| Future | titubear | titubeares | titubear | titubearmos | titubeardes | titubearem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | titubeia | titubeie | titubeemos | titubeai | titubeiem | |
| Negative (não) | não titubeies | não titubeie | não titubeemos | não titubeeis | não titubeiem | |
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Spanish
Etymology
From earlier titubar, from Latin titubāre (“to stagger, stammer, stutter”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /titubeˈaɾ/ [t̪i.t̪u.β̞eˈaɾ]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: ti‧tu‧be‧ar
Verb
titubear (first-person singular present titubeo, first-person singular preterite titubeé, past participle titubeado)
Conjugation
Conjugation of titubear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “titubear”, 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