# lenguarse la traba
## Spanish
### Etymology

A hyperthesis of trabarse la lengua (“to fumble with one's tongue, to stammer, to stutter”), as a metasemantic emphasis on the act of messing with one's words.

### Verb

lenguarse la traba (impersonal, third-person singular present se lengua la traba, third-person singular preterite se lenguó la traba, past participle lenguado la traba)
* (impersonal, colloquial) Synonym of trabar la lengua: to fumble with one's tongue, to stammer, to stutter [with dative]
    Se me lengua la traba cuando hablo en público.I stutter when I speak in public.
** 1872, Ángel Mondéjar y Mendoza, Luis de Charles, Mambrú, Madrid: J. Rodríguez, Escena XVI, page 28:–Es tanta mi emoción, señora mia, que se anudan las gargantas en mis palabras. –Lo creo, porque se os lengua la traba.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1982 September 15, Luis, “Carta a los amigos sobre mi operación de almorranas”, in Andalán, numbers 364-365, Aragón, España, page 49:Y cuando el doctor me dijo: «A operarse tocan», y ya me había tocado, no se me lenguó la traba aunque casi me compuse.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | infinitive | infinitive | lenguarse la traba | lenguarse la traba | lenguarse la traba | lenguarse la traba | lenguarse la traba |
| gerund | gerund | gerund | lenguándose la traba | lenguándose la traba | lenguándose la traba | lenguándose la traba | lenguándose la traba |
| past participle | past participle | | | masculine | masculine | feminine | feminine |
| past participle | past participle | singular | singular | lenguado la traba | lenguado la traba | — | — |
| past participle | past participle | plural | plural | — | — | — | — |
| | | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| | | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person |
| personal non-finite | | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes |
| personal non-finite | infinitive | — | — | lenguarse la traba | — | — | — |
| personal non-finite | gerund | — | — | lenguándose la traba | — | — | — |
| indicative | | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes |
| indicative | present | — | — | se lengua la traba | — | — | — |
| indicative | imperfect | — | — | se lenguaba la traba | — | — | — |
| indicative | preterite | — | — | se lenguó la traba | — | — | — |
| indicative | future | — | — | se lenguará la traba | — | — | — |
| indicative | conditional | — | — | se lenguaría la traba | — | — | — |
| subjunctive | | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes |
| subjunctive | present | — | — | se lengüe la traba | — | — | — |
| subjunctive | imperfect (ra) | — | — | se lenguara la traba | — | — | — |
| subjunctive | imperfect (se) | — | — | se lenguase la traba | — | — | — |
| subjunctive | future$^1$ | — | — | se lenguare la traba | — | — | — |
| imperative | | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes |
| imperative | affirmative | | — | — | — | — | — |
| imperative | negative | | — | — | — | — | — |
$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.