recorre

Recorrer is a Spanish verb that means to go through or to travel across a space, to cover a distance, or to tour a place. It can also mean to examine something in its entirety or to scroll through or scan a text, map, or expediente. In everyday speech, it is used with physical spaces (recorrer un barrio), with routes or distances (recorrer mil kilómetros), and in figurative senses (recorrer la historia de un tema).

Etymology and sense development: the verb derives from Latin recōrrere, formed by the prefix re- (again, through) and currere (to run). Over time, its use broadened from literal movement through a space to broader notions of traversing or reviewing.

Conjugation and forms: in present indicative, the verb conjugates regularly as recorro, recorres, recorre, recorremos, recorréis, recorren. The form recorre can function as the third-person singular present (él/ella/usted recorre) or as the affirmative tú imperative (recorre). Negative tú imperative is no recorras. The noun recorrido, related to the verb, denotes the path or route traveled, or a tour.

Usage notes: recorrer is common in travel, geography, urban planning, and logistics, as well as in literary or journalistic contexts when describing a thorough review of material. In computing or data contexts, it can mean to traverse a structure (for example, recorrer una matriz).

See also: recorrido (the noun form for the route or distance traveled). Recorrer shares semantic space with synonyms such as atravesar, atravesar un lugar, recorrer a pie, and revisar when meaning “to examine thoroughly.”