salPIcaban
Salpicaban is a form of the Spanish verb salpicar, meaning to splash or sprinkle liquid. In its usage, salpicaban is the imperfect tense, third-person plural, and describes an ongoing or repeated action in the past. The function is to convey that the splashing was happening over a period of time, rather than finished at a single moment. In English, it is typically translated as "they were splashing" or "they used to splash," depending on the context.
Morphology and conjugation: The stem is salpic-, and the ending -aban marks the imperfect third-person plural
Usage and examples: Salpicaban is commonly used to describe scenes involving water or liquid being scattered,
Origins and notes: Salpicare is the broader family meaning to splash, derived from salpicar in Spanish. The