arroyar

Spanish

Etymology

From arroyo +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /aroˈʝaɾ/ [a.roˈʝaɾ]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /aroˈʝaɾ/ [a.roˈʝaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /aroˈʃaɾ/ [a.roˈʃaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /aroˈʒaɾ/ [a.roˈʒaɾ]

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧rro‧yar

Verb

arroyar (first-person singular present arroyo, first-person singular preterite arroyé, past participle arroyado)

1. to form streams

Conjugation

    Conjugation of arroyar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			arroyar
gerund			arroyando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		arroyado		arroyada
		plural		arroyados		arroyadas
		singular			plural
		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	arroyo	arroyastú arroyásvos	arroya	arroyamos	arroyáis	arroyan
	imperfect	arroyaba	arroyabas	arroyaba	arroyábamos	arroyabais	arroyaban
	preterite	arroyé	arroyaste	arroyó	arroyamos	arroyasteis	arroyaron
	future	arroyaré	arroyarás	arroyará	arroyaremos	arroyaréis	arroyarán
	conditional	arroyaría	arroyarías	arroyaría	arroyaríamos	arroyaríais	arroyarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	arroye	arroyestú arroyésvos2	arroye	arroyemos	arroyéis	arroyen
	imperfect (ra)	arroyara	arroyaras	arroyara	arroyáramos	arroyarais	arroyaran
	imperfect (se)	arroyase	arroyases	arroyase	arroyásemos	arroyaseis	arroyasen
	future1	arroyare	arroyares	arroyare	arroyáremos	arroyareis	arroyaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		arroyatú arroyávos	arroye	arroyemos	arroyad	arroyen
	negative		no arroyes	no arroye	no arroyemos	no arroyéis	no arroyen

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

Further reading

• “arroyar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10