colocás

Colocás is the second-person singular present indicative form of the verb colocar in the voseo variant of Rioplatense Spanish. It translates roughly as “you place” or “you put,” with a nuance of arranging or positioning something.

The form is characteristic of voseo, where the pronoun vos replaces tú. Verbal endings for -ar verbs in this variety are typically -ás in the present tense, so colocás corresponds to tú colocas in standard Spanish. Regions where voseo is common include Argentina and Uruguay, especially in urban centers like Buenos Aires and Montevideo, as well as other areas influenced by Rioplatense speech. In formal writing or in regions where tú is preferred, the tú form or usted may be used instead of vos.

Etymology traces colocás to colocar, from Latin collocare, meaning to place or set. The accent on á marks the stress on the final syllable, a characteristic of the vos conjugation in present tense.

Examples include: Colocás los libros en la estantería. Hoy colocás las sillas de forma ordenada. ¿Colocás la botella allí? Colocás often carries the nuance of placing with some intention or arrangement, as opposed to the more general poner. In contexts where nuance matters, equivalently vos can also be used with other verb pairs to convey a deliberate placement.