huevear

Spanish

Alternative forms

• huebear, huebiar, hueviar, hueiar, huear (pronunciation spelling)
• güebear, güevear, güebiar, güeviar, güear, güeiar (nonstandard pronunciation-spelling, eye dialect)
• webear, wevear, webiar, weviar, wear, weiar (nonstandard spelling, Chile)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwisder.

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm

Proto-Italic *ōw(j)om

Classical Latin ōvum

Vulgar Latin *ŏvum

Old Spanish hueuo

Spanish huevo

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Latin -izō

Latin -idiāre

Spanish -ear

Spanish huevear

From huevo + -ear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w̝ebeˈaɾ/ [w̝e.β̞eˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: hue‧ve‧ar

Verb

huevear (first-person singular present hueveo, first-person singular preterite hueveé, past participle hueveado)

1. (Chile) to peeve, annoy, bother

   Synonym: fastidiar

2. (Chile) to mess around, have fun, have a good time.

   Synonyms: pasarlo bien, bromear, divertirse

3. (Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, dated in Chile) to idle, loaf, waste time.
4. (Bolivia, Chile, Peru, vulgar) to fool around
5. (transitive, colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) to steal

   Synonym: robar

   Un ladrón hueveó mi celular.

   A thief stole my phone.

6. (transitive, South America) to treat as dumb, to condescend, to patronize

   Synonym: huevonear

Conjugation

    Conjugation of huevear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			huevear
gerund			hueveando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		hueveado		hueveada
		plural		hueveados		hueveadas
		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	hueveo	hueveastú hueveásvos	huevea	hueveamos	hueveáis	huevean
	imperfect	hueveaba	hueveabas	hueveaba	hueveábamos	hueveabais	hueveaban
	preterite	hueveé	hueveaste	hueveó	hueveamos	hueveasteis	huevearon
	future	huevearé	huevearás	hueveará	huevearemos	huevearéis	huevearán
	conditional	huevearía	huevearías	huevearía	huevearíamos	huevearíais	huevearían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	huevee	hueveestú hueveésvos2	huevee	hueveemos	hueveéis	hueveen
	imperfect (ra)	hueveara	huevearas	hueveara	hueveáramos	huevearais	huevearan
	imperfect (se)	huevease	hueveases	huevease	hueveásemos	hueveaseis	hueveasen
	future1	hueveare	hueveares	hueveare	hueveáremos	hueveareis	huevearen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		hueveatú hueveávos	huevee	hueveemos	huevead	hueveen
	negative		no huevees	no huevee	no hueveemos	no hueveéis	no hueveen

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

Related terms

• huevada
• hueveo
• huevón

Further reading

• “huevear”, 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
• “huevear”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010