recriminar

Spanish

Etymology

Compare French récriminer, Italian recriminare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rekɾimiˈnaɾ/ [re.kɾi.miˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧cri‧mi‧nar

Verb

recriminar (first-person singular present recrimino, first-person singular preterite recriminé, past participle recriminado)

1. (transitive) to recriminate

Conjugation

    Conjugation of recriminar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			recriminar
gerund			recriminando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		recriminado		recriminada
		plural		recriminados		recriminadas
		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	recrimino	recriminastú recriminásvos	recrimina	recriminamos	recrimináis	recriminan
	imperfect	recriminaba	recriminabas	recriminaba	recriminábamos	recriminabais	recriminaban
	preterite	recriminé	recriminaste	recriminó	recriminamos	recriminasteis	recriminaron
	future	recriminaré	recriminarás	recriminará	recriminaremos	recriminaréis	recriminarán
	conditional	recriminaría	recriminarías	recriminaría	recriminaríamos	recriminaríais	recriminarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	recrimine	recriminestú recriminésvos2	recrimine	recriminemos	recriminéis	recriminen
	imperfect (ra)	recriminara	recriminaras	recriminara	recrimináramos	recriminarais	recriminaran
	imperfect (se)	recriminase	recriminases	recriminase	recriminásemos	recriminaseis	recriminasen
	future1	recriminare	recriminares	recriminare	recrimináremos	recriminareis	recriminaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		recriminatú recriminávos	recrimine	recriminemos	recriminad	recriminen
	negative		no recrimines	no recrimine	no recriminemos	no recriminéis	no recriminen

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

    Selected combined forms of recriminar

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 recriminar
	dative	recriminarme	recriminarte	recriminarle, recriminarse	recriminarnos	recriminaros	recriminarles, recriminarse
	accusative	recriminarme	recriminarte	recriminarlo, recriminarla, recriminarse	recriminarnos	recriminaros	recriminarlos, recriminarlas, recriminarse
with gerund recriminando
	dative	recriminándome	recriminándote	recriminándole, recriminándose	recriminándonos	recriminándoos	recriminándoles, recriminándose
	accusative	recriminándome	recriminándote	recriminándolo, recriminándola, recriminándose	recriminándonos	recriminándoos	recriminándolos, recriminándolas, recriminándose
with informal second-person singular tú imperative recrimina
	dative	recrimíname	recrimínate	recrimínale	recrimínanos	not used	recrimínales
	accusative	recrimíname	recrimínate	recrimínalo, recrimínala	recrimínanos	not used	recrimínalos, recrimínalas
with informal second-person singular vos imperative recriminá
	dative	recriminame	recriminate	recriminale	recriminanos	not used	recriminales
	accusative	recriminame	recriminate	recriminalo, recriminala	recriminanos	not used	recriminalos, recriminalas
with formal second-person singular imperative recrimine
	dative	recrimíneme	not used	recrimínele, recrimínese	recrimínenos	not used	recrimíneles
	accusative	recrimíneme	not used	recrimínelo, recrimínela, recrimínese	recrimínenos	not used	recrimínelos, recrimínelas
with first-person plural imperative recriminemos
	dative	not used	recriminémoste	recriminémosle	recriminémonos	recriminémoos	recriminémosles
	accusative	not used	recriminémoste	recriminémoslo, recriminémosla	recriminémonos	recriminémoos	recriminémoslos, recriminémoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative recriminad
	dative	recriminadme	not used	recriminadle	recriminadnos	recriminaos	recriminadles
	accusative	recriminadme	not used	recriminadlo, recriminadla	recriminadnos	recriminaos	recriminadlos, recriminadlas
with formal second-person plural imperative recriminen
	dative	recrimínenme	not used	recrimínenle	recrimínennos	not used	recrimínenles, recrimínense
	accusative	recrimínenme	not used	recrimínenlo, recrimínenla	recrimínennos	not used	recrimínenlos, recrimínenlas, recrimínense

Further reading

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