Logos

Words / cls.spa.verbo

cantar

Identity

Lemma
cantar
Part of speech
cls.spa.verboread off the URL segment (in turn parsed from the LEXEME id by lib/routes.ts’s posAndLemmaOf), because Lexeme carries no pos field yet (LAN-217/LAN-274). This route is built to prefer node.data.pos as the field once that migration lands; until then, the id is the only source and this line says so rather than hiding it.
Frequency rank
frequency rank: not recorded. Nobody has written this yetnot recorded
Gloss
The regular first conjugation verb the realization records use throughout as their worked example.

The verb is authored not because anything about it is irregular but because six of this graph's realization records cite its shapes by name to state what tense, mood, aspect, person and finiteness look like when nothing unusual is happening. A record that names a shape and has no object to point at leaves the claim unreachable, which is the reason a regular verb earns a hand authored entry here at all. Every other regular verb of its conjugation follows the same pattern and belongs to the generated layer.

Sourced from:

  • Nueva gramática de la lengua española (2009)grammarentryno public licenceretrieved 2026-08-04by Real Academia Española and Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  • A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Butt and Benjamin)grammarentryno public licenceretrieved 2026-08-04by John Butt and Carmen Benjamin

Paradigm

The paradigm of cantar

Five person slots, not six. There is no tú row and no vosotros row: the dialect target is rioplatense-or-neutral, so the second person singular is vos, and widening the set is a type error rather than an editorial choice. Paradigm variant: the ordinary paradigm.

30 cells across 6 rows: 7 with a form, 0 disputed, 0 asserted gaps, 23 not written yet. The last two are opposite facts and never share a mark.
tenseyovoselnosotrosustedes
presentindicativeunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtencantáscantaunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtenunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot written
imperfectindicativeunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtenunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtencantabaunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtenunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot written
preteriteindicativeunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtenunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtencantóunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtenunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot written
futureindicativeunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtenunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtencantaráunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtenunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot written
presentsubjunctiveunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtenunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtencanteunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtenunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot written
imperativeimperativeunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtencantáunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtenunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtenunwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot written
  • gap: this form does not exist. Somebody looked and asserted the holeno such formthe form does not exist. Somebody looked and asserted the hole, the way soler has no preterite.
  • unwritten: nobody has written this cell yet. Not a claim about the languagenot writtennobody has written this cell yet. A fact about our coverage, not about the language, and the opposite claim to the one above.
  • CSthe stem changes, or does not, in this one cell. A per-cell mark and never a painted region: on five slots, with vos never diphthongizing, a stem-changing verb alternates C S C S C and there is no contiguous block to paint.

Non-finite forms (no person, so no coordinate in the five-column grid):

  • cantadoThe participle of the regular first conjugation example, the only nonfinite form that inflects, and only where it modifies a noun.
  • cantandoThe gerund of the regular first conjugation example, the second of the three forms carrying no tense and no agreement.
  • cantarThe infinitive of the regular first conjugation example, the citation shape and one of the three forms carrying no tense and no agreement.

Class memberships

has-a edges to CLASS objects (06-surface.md §5.2) — the door back into the grammar. Subsumption (is-a) is not available here: it is same-type-only (A3), so a LEXEME cannot is-a a CLASS.

Examples

Each example declares its dialect and tier, per 06-surface.md §5.2 (“the interface ranks and labels rather than silently mixing registers”).

No examples are recorded for this lexeme (Lexeme.examples is optional; absent key = unstated, per lib/schema/nodes.ts’s own note — never a stub sentence invented to fill the section).

Where the grammar discusses this word

05-vocabulary.md §10.9’s own requirement: “a vocab entry links back to the grammar.” has-a edges to CATEGORY and inbound selects edges, both real graph edges rather than a generated cross-reference.

No CATEGORY membership or selects edge is recorded for this lexeme.