Brincar means ‘to jump/skip’. It is a regular -ar verb with a spelling change (c becomes qu before e): brinco (present), brinqué (preterite), brincado (past participle), brincando (gerund).
Brincar in use
Los niños brincaban de alegría en el jardínThe children were jumping for joy in the garden
El cordero brincó por el pradoThe lamb leapt across the meadow
No brinques, que vas a despertar a tu hermanoDon't jump about, you'll wake your brother
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Brincar suggests leaping or skipping about, often for joy. For everyday jumping, Spain uses saltar; brincar as the ordinary word for to jump is more typical of parts of Latin America, especially Mexico.
More tenses
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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