![]() ![]() You can also use these forms to ask things politely in Spanish.įor example: ¿Podrías decirme dónde están los baños? Person The conditional conjugations of ‘poder’ allow you to talk about the things people would be able to do. To conjugate poder to the conditional tense, you must use the irregular stem podr. ![]() Conjugate poder to the future simple to talk about the activities people will be able to do at some moment in the future. To form this tense, you must use the stem podr. Poder future tense conjugations are irregular. For instance: ¿Vas a poder ir mañana? Person These conjugations allow you to express that a person is going to be able to do something very soon in the future. The Spanish immediate or near future is formed with ir (present tense) + a + poder. You can also use these forms when it’s unclear when someone was able to do something.įor instance: Yo nunca podía jugar con mi hermano. Use poder imperfect conjugations to talk about the things people were or weren’t able to do for an extended time in the past. In the imperfect indicative tense, poder is a regular verb. For example: ¿Pudiste hablar con Lara? Person Use the preterite tense to conjugate poder to express that a person was or wasn’t able to do something. You can see these changes in the conjugation chart below. Notice that the forms ‘yo’, ‘él’, ‘ella’, and ‘usted’ omit the accent mark in the preterite endings. Poder preterite conjugations are formed with the irregular stem pud. We use poder present conjugations to express what people can and cannot do. You can check this in the conjugation chart below. The conjugations of poder in the present tense have an O to UE stem change for all pronouns except ‘nosotros’ and ‘vosotros’. Indicative Conjugations of Poder Present tense You can learn more about how to use this verb in the Uses & Meanings section. Present Subjunctive: pued for all subject pronouns except ‘nosotros’ and vosotros’.ĭepending on the sentence, poder can be translated as ‘to be able to’ or ‘can’.Present Indicative: puedfor all subject pronouns except ‘nosotros’ and ‘vosotros’.Imperfect Subjunctive: pudie for all subject pronouns.Future & Conditional: podr for all subject pronouns.Preterite: pudfor all subject pronouns.For verbs ending in - ll/-ñ + -er/-ir, we remove the final - i in the 3 rd person singular and plural.Sometimes, we have to change the final consonant of certain -ar verbs in the 1 st person singular in order to preserve the pronunciation.Įxample: c becomes qu → atra car moor ( a ship) - atra qué g becomes gu → col gar hang, add - col gué gu becomes gü → averi guar investigate, research - averi güé z becomes c → empe zar begin - empe cé.For verbs ending in a vowel + -er/-ir, we change - i to a - y in the 3 rd person singular and plural form.Įxample: caer fall - caí, caíste, ca yó, caímos, caísteis, ca yeron distribuir distribute - distribuí, distribuiste, distribu yó, distribuimos, distribuisteis, distribu yeron leer read - leí, leíste, le yó, leímos, leísteis, le yeron oír hear - oí, oíste, o yó, oímos, oísteis, o yeron.The endings of these verbs are irregular (-e, -iste, -o, -imos, -isteis, -eron).Įxample: traducir translate - trad uje, trad ujiste, trad ujo, trad ujimos, trad ujisteis, trad ujeron Verbs that end in - ucir, change - uc to -uj.Some - ir verbs, change their stem in the 3 rd person singular and plural (-e → -i, -o → -u).Įxample: p edir ask for - pedí, pediste, p idió, pedimos, pedisteis, p idieron d ormir sleep - dormí, dormiste, d urmió, dormimos, dormisteis, d urmieron. ![]() We know from the context which verb is meant.
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