tronchar
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /tɾõˈʃa(ʁ)/ [tɾõˈʃa(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /tɾõˈʃa(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /tɾõˈʃa(ʁ)/ [tɾõˈʃa(χ)]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /tɾõˈʃa(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /tɾõˈʃaɾ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /tɾõˈt͡ʃaɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /tɾõˈʃa.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: tron‧char
Verb
tronchar (first-person singular present troncho, first-person singular preterite tronchei, past participle tronchado)
Conjugation
Conjugation of tronchar (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 | tronchar | |||||
| Personal | tronchar | tronchares | tronchar | troncharmos | tronchardes | troncharem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| tronchando | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | tronchado | tronchados | ||||
| Feminine | tronchada | tronchadas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | troncho | tronchas | troncha | tronchamos | tronchais | troncham |
| Imperfect | tronchava | tronchavas | tronchava | tronchávamos | troncháveis | tronchavam |
| Preterite | tronchei | tronchaste | tronchou | tronchamos1, tronchámos2 | tronchastes | troncharam |
| Pluperfect | tronchara | troncharas | tronchara | troncháramos | troncháreis | troncharam |
| Future | troncharei | troncharás | tronchará | troncharemos | tronchareis | troncharão |
| Conditional | troncharia | troncharias | troncharia | troncharíamos | troncharíeis | tronchariam |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | tronche | tronches | tronche | tronchemos | troncheis | tronchem |
| Imperfect | tronchasse | tronchasses | tronchasse | tronchássemos | tronchásseis | tronchassem |
| Future | tronchar | tronchares | tronchar | troncharmos | tronchardes | troncharem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | troncha | tronche | tronchemos | tronchai | tronchem | |
| Negative (não) | não tronches | não tronche | não tronchemos | não troncheis | não tronchem | |
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Related terms
Further reading
- “tronchar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *trunculāre or from troncho, from Latin trunculus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾonˈt͡ʃaɾ/ [t̪ɾõnʲˈt͡ʃaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: tron‧char
Verb
tronchar (first-person singular present troncho, first-person singular preterite tronché, past participle tronchado)
- (transitive, reflexive) to snap off
- tronchar una rama
- snap off a branch
- (transitive, reflexive) to crack, to split
- (reflexive) to laugh out loud, to crack up (usually used in the expression troncharse de risa)
- Synonym: troncharse de risa
Conjugation
Conjugation of tronchar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of tronchar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| with infinitive tronchar | dative | troncharme | troncharte | troncharle, troncharse | troncharnos | troncharos | troncharles, troncharse |
| accusative | troncharme | troncharte | troncharlo, troncharla, troncharse | troncharnos | troncharos | troncharlos, troncharlas, troncharse | |
| with gerund tronchando | dative | tronchándome | tronchándote | tronchándole, tronchándose | tronchándonos | tronchándoos | tronchándoles, tronchándose |
| accusative | tronchándome | tronchándote | tronchándolo, tronchándola, tronchándose | tronchándonos | tronchándoos | tronchándolos, tronchándolas, tronchándose | |
| with informal second-person singular tuteo imperative troncha | dative | trónchame | trónchate | trónchale | trónchanos | not used | trónchales |
| accusative | trónchame | trónchate | trónchalo, trónchala | trónchanos | not used | trónchalos, trónchalas | |
| with informal second-person singular voseo imperative tronchá | dative | tronchame | tronchate | tronchale | tronchanos | not used | tronchales |
| accusative | tronchame | tronchate | tronchalo, tronchala | tronchanos | not used | tronchalos, tronchalas | |
| with formal second-person singular imperative tronche | dative | tróncheme | not used | trónchele, trónchese | trónchenos | not used | tróncheles |
| accusative | tróncheme | not used | trónchelo, trónchela, trónchese | trónchenos | not used | trónchelos, trónchelas | |
| with first-person plural imperative tronchemos | dative | not used | tronchémoste | tronchémosle | tronchémonos | tronchémoos | tronchémosles |
| accusative | not used | tronchémoste | tronchémoslo, tronchémosla | tronchémonos | tronchémoos | tronchémoslos, tronchémoslas | |
| with informal second-person plural imperative tronchad | dative | tronchadme | not used | tronchadle | tronchadnos | tronchaos | tronchadles |
| accusative | tronchadme | not used | tronchadlo, tronchadla | tronchadnos | tronchaos | tronchadlos, tronchadlas | |
| with formal second-person plural imperative tronchen | dative | trónchenme | not used | trónchenle | trónchennos | not used | trónchenles, trónchense |
| accusative | trónchenme | not used | trónchenlo, trónchenla | trónchennos | not used | trónchenlos, trónchenlas, trónchense | |
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tronchar”, 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