decirs

Decirs is not a standard lexical item in Spanish. It commonly appears as a nonstandard form or misspelling related to the verb decir, rather than as a valid infinitive or conjugated form. Major Spanish dictionaries do not list decirs as a legitimate entry.

Etymology and morphology: In standard Spanish, the infinitive is decir, not decirs. The verb’s present indicative forms are digo, dices, dice, decimos, decís, dicen. The form decís represents the vos form used in several dialects (notably Rioplatense Spanish) and carries an accent on the í. There is no recognized inflected form corresponding to decirs in any dialect of Spanish.

Usage and reception: Decirs typically appears in informal writing or online text as a typographical error or misunderstanding of the correct vos form decís. It may also arise from learners’ overgeneralization of adding an -s to verbs. Editors, dictionaries, and language guides generally treat decirs as incorrect and recommend using the appropriate standard forms (dices, dices; decís; dice; etc.) depending on the subject and dialect.

Regional variation: The primary regional distinction relevant to this topic is the existence of vos as a second-person pronoun in parts of Latin America. In these varieties, the corresponding verb form is decís rather than dices, but decirs remains nonstandard. In most formal contexts and in Latin American Spanish outside voseo areas, tu presente is dices and you would use dices, dice, decimos, dicen, etc.

See also: decir, voseo, Spanish verbs, Spanish orthography.