cuelga

Cuelga is a form of the Spanish verb colgar, which means to hang, suspend, or hang up. It is used as the third-person singular present indicative form: él cuelga means he hangs, and it also serves as the present form for the formal second-person singular (usted cuelga) when addressing someone formally.

The form appears in both transitive and intransitive senses. Intransitively, it can describe something that is hanging: la lámpara cuelga del techo, “the lamp hangs from the ceiling.” Transitively, it governs a direct object: el artista cuelga su obra en la galería, “the artist hangs his work in the gallery.” The verb also appears in common telephonic usage through related expressions such as colgar el teléfono, which means to hang up the phone; the present tense cuelga is used in contexts referring to a person who ends a call.

Grammatical variants include the affirmative tú command, where cuelga is used to tell someone informally to hang something or to hang up, as in Cuelga esa chaqueta; the negative tú command is no cuelgues. In the imperative forms for other persons, the verb follows standard conjugation patterns of colgar.

Cuelga is widely used across Spanish-speaking regions, with regional preferences for the verb colgar in everyday speech, yet cuelga remains a standard and widely understood form within the language. Related forms include colgar (the infinitive), cuelgo (yo form in some tenses), and cuelgado (the past participle).