marear

Galician

Alternative forms

• marexar

Etymology

Attested since 1370. From mar (“sea”) or marea (“tide; crossing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɾeˈaɾ/

Verb

marear (first-person singular present mareo, first-person singular preterite mareei, past participle mareado)
marear (first-person singular present mareio, first-person singular preterite mareei, past participle mareado, reintegrationist norm)

1. (nautical, now literary) to navigate
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 257:

     Mays Pares tragía cõsigo moy bõos marineyros, et tã ben sabíã marear que toste tomarõ porto

     But Paris brought with him excellent sailors, who were so good at navigating that soon they arrived to a harbor

   • 1878, Francisco Añón, untitled:

     Por mor de certa rabuxa
     pelengrinei por Europa
     marexaba vento en popa
     pero dixen ¡ai da puxa!
     xa lle vin o rabo á cruxa,
     ando feito un sapo cuncho
     volvome ao patrio corruncho

     Because of certain rage
     I pilgrimaged along Europe
     I was sailing with tailwind
     but I said to myself, geez!
     I've already seen the owl's tail
     and I'm look like a tortoise
     I'm getting back to my native corner

   Synonyms: navegar, singrar

2. (transitive) to dizzy
3. (pronominal) to get dizzy
4. (intransitive, of fish) to swim

Conjugation

    Conjugation of marear

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti)	Third-person (el / ela / Vde.)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal	marear
Personal	marear	mareares	marear	marearmos	mareardes	marearen
Gerund
	mareando
Past participle
Masculine	mareado			mareados
Feminine	mareada			mareadas
Indicative
Present	mareo	mareas	marea	mareamos	mareades	marean
Imperfect	mareaba	mareabas	mareaba	mareabamos	mareabades	mareaban
Preterite	mareei	mareaches	mareou	mareamos	mareastes	marearon
Pluperfect	mareara	marearas	mareara	marearamos	marearades	marearan
Future	marearei	marearás	mareará	marearemos	marearedes	marearán
Conditional	marearía	marearías	marearía	mareariamos	mareariades	marearían
Subjunctive
Present	maree	marees	maree	mareemos	mareedes	mareen
Imperfect	marease	mareases	marease	mareásemos	mareásedes	mareasen
Future	marear	mareares	marear	marearmos	mareardes	marearen
Imperative
Affirmative		marea	maree	mareemos	mareade	mareen
Negative (non)		non marees	non maree	non mareemos	non mareedes	non mareen

    Reintegrated conjugation of marear (e may become ei when stressed) (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti / tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	marear
Personal	marear	mareares	marear	marearmos	mareardes	marearem
Gerund
	mareando
Past participle
Masculine	mareado			mareados
Feminine	mareada			mareadas
Indicative
Present	mareio, mareo1	mareias, mareas1	mareia, marea1	mareamos	mareades, mareais	mareiam, maream1
Imperfect	mareava	mareavas	mareava	mareávamos	mareávades, mareáveis, mareávais1	mareavam
Preterite	mareei	mareaste, mareache1	mareou	mareamos	mareastes	mareárom, marearam
Pluperfect	mareara	marearas	mareara	mareáramos	mareárades, mareáreis, mareárais1	marearam
Future	marearei	marearás	mareará	marearemos	marearedes, mareareis	marearám, marearão
Conditional	marearia	marearias	marearia	marearíamos	marearíades, marearíeis, marearíais1	mareariam
Subjunctive
Present	mareie, maree1	mareies, marees1	mareie, maree1	mareemos	mareedes, mareeis	mareiem, mareem1
Imperfect	mareasse	mareasses	mareasse	mareássemos	mareássedes, mareásseis	mareassem
Future	marear	mareares	marear	marearmos	mareardes	marearem
Imperative
Affirmative		mareia, marea1	mareie, maree1	mareemos	mareade, mareai	mareiem, mareem1
Negative (nom)		nom mareies, nom marees1	nom mareie, nom maree1	nom mareemos	nom mareedes, nom mareeis	nom mareiem, nom mareem1

¹Less recommended.

Derived terms

• mareante
• mareo

Related terms

• mar
• marea
• marexada

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “marear”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “marea”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “marear”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “marear”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “marear”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “marear”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

From marea (“tide”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɾeˈaɾ/ [ma.ɾeˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ma‧re‧ar

Verb

marear (first-person singular present mareo, first-person singular preterite mareé, past participle mareado)

1. (pronominal) to get dizzy
2. to make dizzy, to dizzy
3. to sicken

Conjugation

    Conjugation of marear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			marear
gerund			mareando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		mareado		mareada
		plural		mareados		mareadas
		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	mareo	mareastú mareásvos	marea	mareamos	mareáis	marean
	imperfect	mareaba	mareabas	mareaba	mareábamos	mareabais	mareaban
	preterite	mareé	mareaste	mareó	mareamos	mareasteis	marearon
	future	marearé	marearás	mareará	marearemos	marearéis	marearán
	conditional	marearía	marearías	marearía	marearíamos	marearíais	marearían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	maree	mareestú mareésvos2	maree	mareemos	mareéis	mareen
	imperfect (ra)	mareara	marearas	mareara	mareáramos	marearais	marearan
	imperfect (se)	marease	mareases	marease	mareásemos	mareaseis	mareasen
	future1	mareare	mareares	mareare	mareáremos	mareareis	marearen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		mareatú mareávos	maree	mareemos	maread	mareen
	negative		no marees	no maree	no mareemos	no mareéis	no mareen

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

    Selected combined forms of marear

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 marear	dative	marearme	marearte	marearle, marearse	marearnos	marearos	marearles, marearse
	accusative	marearme	marearte	marearlo, marearla, marearse	marearnos	marearos	marearlos, marearlas, marearse
with gerund mareando	dative	mareándome	mareándote	mareándole, mareándose	mareándonos	mareándoos	mareándoles, mareándose
	accusative	mareándome	mareándote	mareándolo, mareándola, mareándose	mareándonos	mareándoos	mareándolos, mareándolas, mareándose
with informal second-person singular tuteo imperative marea	dative	maréame	maréate	maréale	maréanos	not used	maréales
	accusative	maréame	maréate	maréalo, maréala	maréanos	not used	maréalos, maréalas
with informal second-person singular voseo imperative mareá	dative	mareame	mareate	mareale	mareanos	not used	mareales
	accusative	mareame	mareate	marealo, mareala	mareanos	not used	marealos, marealas
with formal second-person singular imperative maree	dative	maréeme	not used	maréele, maréese	maréenos	not used	maréeles
	accusative	maréeme	not used	maréelo, maréela, maréese	maréenos	not used	maréelos, maréelas
with first-person plural imperative mareemos	dative	not used	mareémoste	mareémosle	mareémonos	mareémoos	mareémosles
	accusative	not used	mareémoste	mareémoslo, mareémosla	mareémonos	mareémoos	mareémoslos, mareémoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative maread	dative	mareadme	not used	mareadle	mareadnos	mareaos	mareadles
	accusative	mareadme	not used	mareadlo, mareadla	mareadnos	mareaos	mareadlos, mareadlas
with formal second-person plural imperative mareen	dative	maréenme	not used	maréenle	maréennos	not used	maréenles, maréense
	accusative	maréenme	not used	maréenlo, maréenla	maréennos	not used	maréenlos, maréenlas, maréense

Derived terms

• aguja de marear
• carta de marear
• mareado
• mareador
• mareante
• marear la perdiz
• mareo

Further reading

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