tutear
Spanish, verb/tuteˈaɾ/
tutear is spelled T-U-T-E-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish, the 123,873rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tutear is a Spanish verb meaning “to address someone informally with tú, rather than the formal usted or the informal pronoun vos used in certain countries; to thou” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Tratar de tú”.
What does tutear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to address someone informally with tú, rather than the formal usted or the informal pronoun vos used in certain countries; to thou
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tratar de tú.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tutear
- tuteo first-person present singular
- tuteé first-person preterite singular
- tuteado participle past
- tuteando gerund
- tuteada feminine participle past
- tuteados masculine participle past
- tuteadas feminine participle past
- tuteas indicative informal present
- tuteás indicative informal present
- tutea indicative present singular
- tuteamos first-person indicative plural
- tuteáis indicative plural present
- tutean indicative plural present
- tuteaba first-person imperfect indicative
- tuteabas imperfect indicative second-person
- tuteábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- tuteabais imperfect indicative plural
- tuteaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tutear?
- /tuteˈaɾ/
- [t̪u.t̪eˈaɾ]
- [t̪ut̪eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tutear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tutear in Spanish?
tutear appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).