Mistake in the "Palabra del Día" sample sentence

Question

Dice "Nunca me voy por esa calle porque siempre atoro en el tráfico. - I never use that street because I always get stuck in traffic." ¿Debería de decir "me atuero"?

"Atoro" is correct...the SD congugation tool is wrong. - --Mariana--, Aug 10, 2010

Good observation so early in the morning. - Yeser007, Aug 10, 2010

Answer 1

Hi, Mark. Good observation!!!

EDIT: The "yo" form of the verb "atorar" is "atoro," but the SD conjugation is incorrect. It says "atuero" but the official dictionary of Spanish has this:

Presente

atoro

atoras / atorás

atora

atoramos

atoráis / atoran

atoran

Answer 2

I think you've asked to great questions. One, the example does seem to have a reflexive sense to it. However, atorar itself meant "to get stuck", without being reflexive. Like "nacer" means to be born, you don't need the reflexive pronoun. But SpanishDict says it should be atuero as you suggest - which would make it a stem changing -ar verb, like volar. That's what I would expect, but... vamos a ver!

Jeremias, that's not correct. I looked it up in the RAE and it's a regular verb. - --Mariana--, Aug 10, 2010

Agreed. Marianne is right. - Gekkosan, Aug 10, 2010