pepenar

Spanish

Etymology

From Classical Nahuatl pehpena (“to choose, select”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pepeˈnaɾ/

Verb

pepenar (first-person singular present pepeno, first-person singular preterite pepené, past participle pepenado)

(Central America, Mexico) to scrounge
(Central America, Mexico) to pick up, to collect
(Mexico, Nicaragua) to steal, loot

Conjugation

Conjugation of pepenar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)^{edit data}

		singular			plural
infinitive			pepenar
gerund			pepenando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		pepenado		pepenada
		plural		pepenados		pepenadas
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	pepeno	pepenas^tú pepenás^{^vos}	pepena	pepenamos	pepenáis	pepenan
	imperfect	pepenaba	pepenabas	pepenaba	pepenábamos	pepenabais	pepenaban
	preterite	pepené	pepenaste	pepenó	pepenamos	pepenasteis	pepenaron
	future	pepenaré	pepenarás	pepenará	pepenaremos	pepenaréis	pepenarán
	conditional	pepenaría	pepenarías	pepenaría	pepenaríamos	pepenaríais	pepenarían

subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	pepene	pepenes^{^tú} pepenés^{^vos²}	pepene	pepenemos	pepenéis	pepenen
	imperfect (ra)	pepenara	pepenaras	pepenara	pepenáramos	pepenarais	pepenaran
	imperfect (se)	pepenase	pepenases	pepenase	pepenásemos	pepenaseis	pepenasen
	future¹	pepenare	pepenares	pepenare	pepenáremos	pepenareis	pepenaren

imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		pepena^{^tú} pepená^{^vos}	pepene	pepenemos	pepenad	pepenen
	negative		no pepenes	no pepene	no pepenemos	no pepenéis	no pepenen

¹ Mostly obsolete form, now mainly used in legal jargon.
² Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

“pepenar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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