to pick up (the phone)/take downB1stem-changing-aro→ue
Descolgar means ‘to pick up (the phone)/take down’. It is a stem-changing -ar verb (o → ue) in which g becomes gu before e: descuelgo (present), descolgué (preterite), descolgado (past participle), descolgando (gerund).
Descolgar in use
Descuelga, que es tu madrePick up, it's your mum
Llamé tres veces pero nadie descolgóI rang three times but nobody picked up
Ayúdame a descolgar la ropa, que va a lloverHelp me take in the washing, it's going to rain
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
ending the ending you addstem letters that changehaber auxiliary
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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