cabalgar
Spanish
FWOTD – 8 April 2018
Etymology
From Late Latin caballicāre, present active infinitive of caballicō, from Latin caballus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kabalˈɡaɾ/, [kaβalˈɡaɾ]
- Hyphenation: ca‧bal‧gar
Verb
cabalgar (first-person singular present cabalgo, first-person singular preterite cabalgué, past participle cabalgado)
- (intransitive) to mount an animal, especially a horse
- 1952, Hernán del Solar, La noche de enfrente
- Pedro corrió por los cerros y cabalgó un caballo desconocido.
- Pedro ran through the hills and mounted an unknown horse.
- Pedro corrió por los cerros y cabalgó un caballo desconocido.
- Synonym: montar
- 1952, Hernán del Solar, La noche de enfrente
- (intransitive) to ride an animal, especially a horse
- 2005, Pilar Cibreiro, El dueño del trigo, Caballo De Troya (→ISBN), page 133
- Cabalgaron un día entero sin apearse y de noche seguían cabalgando.
- They rode one whole day without dismounting, and at night they kept riding.
- Cabalgaron un día entero sin apearse y de noche seguían cabalgando.
- 2005, Pilar Cibreiro, El dueño del trigo, Caballo De Troya (→ISBN), page 133
Conjugation
- Rule: g becomes a gu before e.
- 1 Mostly obsolete form, now mainly used in legal jargon.
- 2 Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Other verbs with this conjugation:
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Further reading
- “cabalgar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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