repollar

Spanish

Etymology

From repollo +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /repoˈʝaɾ/ [re.poˈʝaɾ]

• IPA^(key): /repoˈʝaɾ/ [re.poˈʝaɾ] (most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /repoˈʎaɾ/ [re.poˈʎaɾ] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /repoˈʃaɾ/ [re.poˈʃaɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /repoˈʒaɾ/ [re.poˈʒaɾ] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧po‧llar

Verb

repollar (first-person singular present repollo, first-person singular preterite repollé, past participle repollado)

1. (intransitive, rare) to grow cabbages

Conjugation

    Conjugation of repollar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			repollar
gerund			repollando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		repollado		repollada
		plural		repollados		repolladas
		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	repollo	repollastú repollásvos	repolla	repollamos	repolláis	repollan
	imperfect	repollaba	repollabas	repollaba	repollábamos	repollabais	repollaban
	preterite	repollé	repollaste	repolló	repollamos	repollasteis	repollaron
	future	repollaré	repollarás	repollará	repollaremos	repollaréis	repollarán
	conditional	repollaría	repollarías	repollaría	repollaríamos	repollaríais	repollarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	repolle	repollestú repollésvos2	repolle	repollemos	repolléis	repollen
	imperfect (ra)	repollara	repollaras	repollara	repolláramos	repollarais	repollaran
	imperfect (se)	repollase	repollases	repollase	repollásemos	repollaseis	repollasen
	future1	repollare	repollares	repollare	repolláremos	repollareis	repollaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		repollatú repollávos	repolle	repollemos	repollad	repollen
	negative		no repolles	no repolle	no repollemos	no repolléis	no repollen

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

Further reading

• “repollar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025