Relampaguear means ‘to flash with lightning’. It is a regular -ar verb, used only in the third person singular: relampaguea (present), relampagueó (preterite), relampagueado (past participle), relampagueando (gerund).
Relampaguear in use
Toda la noche relampagueó sobre la sierraLightning flashed over the mountains all night
Relampaguea, pero todavía no llueveThere's lightning, but it isn't raining yet
Cuando relampagueaba, contábamos los segundos hasta el truenoWhen there was lightning, we used to count the seconds until the thunder
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Not every form is used. An impersonal weather verb: it is only used in the third person singular (relampaguea). Hay relámpagos is more common in speech. Forms that are not used are shown as "-".
The other perfect tenses (haber + past participle) and the past subjunctive
The imperfect subjunctive has two forms: -ra (more common in speech) and -se (more formal; still heard in speech in Spain, mainly written in Latin America). Both are equally correct and interchangeable.
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