entrecerrar
Spanish
Verb
entrecerrar (first-person singular present entrecierro, first-person singular preterite entrecerré, past participle entrecerrado)
- to squint (usually succeeded by los ojos)
- Se puede ver esto sin entrecerrar los ojos.
- This can be seen without squinting.
- Se puede ver esto sin entrecerrar los ojos.
- to close halfway, to leave ajar
- Cuando se marchó, entrecerró la puerta.
- When he left, he closed the door halfway.
- Cuando se marchó, entrecerró la puerta.
Conjugation
- Rule: e becomes an ie in stressed syllables.
- 1 Mostly obsolete form, still used in legal jargon and set phrases.
- 2 Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Other verbs with this conjugation:
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