Colocas

Colocas is the second-person singular present indicative form of the Spanish verb colocar, meaning you place or you are placing. It is used with the informal second-person singular subject tú in most Spanish-speaking regions. The verb colocar itself derives from Latin collocare, meaning to place in a position or to set in place.

As a regular -ar verb, colocar follows the standard present tense endings: yo coloco, tú colocas, él/ella/Ud. coloca, nosotros colocamos, vosotros colocáis, ellos colocan. Therefore, colocas appears as the tú form in the present indicative: “Tú colocas las cajas en la esquina.” It describes placing objects, setting up arrangements, or placing items in a sequence.

In dialects that employ voseo, the corresponding form is colocás, used especially in Argentina, Uruguay, and parts of Central America. An example would be: “Vos colocás las cajas en la estantería.”

Colocas is widely used in everyday speech, writing, and instruction. It also appears in compound tenses and in clauses requiring the subjunctive, such as “que coloques,” as well as in conditional forms like “colocaría.”