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Confiarse is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to trust, entrust, have faith or confidence”.
It’s a reflexive verb, which means the subject performs the action upon themselves – e.g. “I wake myself”.
Reflexive verbs always carry a reflexive pronoun – me, te, se, nos or os – which is often placed before the conjugated verb (e.g. me confío) or after the infinitive (e.g. Él tiene que confiarse).
Below are all of the conjugations for confiarse in Spanish, in all three moods (indicative/indicativo, subjunctive/subjunctivo and imperative/imperativo) and all of the tenses, for each pronoun.
The vosotros pronoun is mainly used in mainland Spain, and is the informal second-person plural – it could be considered the Spanish version of “y’all”. It is rarely found in Latin America, where ustedes is used instead.
The vos form is used instead of tú in some Spanish speaking countries of South America, especially the Southern Cone (e.g. Argentina and Uruguay) and has a different conjugation.
| English Infinitive | to trust, entrust, have faith or confidence |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | confiarse |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está confiándose) and past continuous (estaba confiándose). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. trusting).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he confiado and hubiera confiado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have trusted).
| Gerundio / Gerund | confiándose |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | confiado |
The basic form of speech, el indicativo is used for making statements, talking about facts, events and things that are certain and objective.
The present tense is as it sounds – it’s for talking about things that are currently going on, which are habitual, or which generally exist. In English, this would be “I trust” or “they trust”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | me confío |
| Tú | te confías |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se confía |
| Nosotros / as | nos confiamos |
| Vosotros / as | os confiáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se confían |
| Vos | confiás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I trusted” or “she trusted” in English.
In Spanish, there are two past tenses where just one is used in English; the pretérite infefinido is typically used to refer to a concrete, specific moment in time.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me confié | I trusted |
| Tú | te confiaste | You trusted |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se confió | He / she / you trusted |
| Nosotros / as | nos confiamos | We trusted |
| Vosotros / as | os confiasteis | You trusted |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se confiaron | They / you trusted |
| Vos | te confiaste | You trusted |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was trusting” or “she was trusting” in English, and is typically used to describe things and set a scene, talk about events without a specific timeframe, or talk about habitual events or states in the past.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me confiaba | I was trusting |
| Tú | te confiabas | You were trusting |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se confiaba | He was / she was / you were trusting |
| Nosotros / as | nos confiábamos | We were trusting |
| Vosotros / as | os confiabais | You were trusting |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se confiaban | They / you were trusting |
| Vos | te confiabas | You were trusting |
The perfect tense is for talking about things which happened in the past but are still related to the present or continue into the present.
In English, these use the auxiliary verbs ‘have’ and ‘has’ – i.e. “I have trusted” and “she has trusted”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me he confiado | I have trusted |
| Tú | te has confiado | You have trusted |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se ha confiado | He has / she has / you have trusted |
| Nosotros / as | nos hemos confiado | We have trusted |
| Vosotros / as | os habéis confiado | You have trusted |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se han confiado | They / you have trusted |
| Vos | te has confiado | You have trusted |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would trust” or “she would trust”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me confiaría | I would trust |
| Tú | te confiarías | You would trust |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se confiaría | He / she / you would trust |
| Nosotros / as | nos confiaríamos | We would trust |
| Vosotros / as | os confiaríais | You would trust |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se confiarían | They / you would trust |
| Vos | te confiarías | You would trust |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will trust” or “they will trust”.
It is more commonly used for making a hypothesis about the present. To talk about the future, Spanish speakers frequently use “ir + a + infinivo”, e.g. “van a confiarse” means “They are going to trust”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me confiaré | I will trust |
| Tú | te confiarás | You will trust |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se confiará | He / she / you will trust |
| Nosotros / as | nos confiaremos | We will trust |
| Vosotros / as | os confiaréis | You will trust |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se confiarán | They / you will trust |
| Vos | te confiarás | You will trust |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | me confíe |
| Tú | te confíes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se confíe |
| Nosotros / as | nos confiemos |
| Vosotros / as | os confiéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se confíen |
| Vos | te confíes |
There are two ways to form the imperfect subjunctive.
The first option sees verbs ending in -era (for -er and -ir verbs) and -ara (for -ar verbs), while the second sees verbs ending in -ese (for -er and -ir verbs) and -ase (for -ar verbs).
There is no difference between these two forms, and Spanish speakers use them interchangeably.
| Pronoun | Spanish era/ara | Spanish ese/ase |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me confiara | me confiase |
| Tú | te confiaras | me confiase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se confiara | se confiase |
| Nosotros / as | nos confiáramos | nos confiásemos |
| Vosotros / as | os confiarais | os confiaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se confiaran | se confiasen |
| Vos | te confiaras | me confiase |
The future subjunctive is no longer used in modern-day Spanish, apart from in literary and legal contexts, and there is no need to learn it.
It is formed the same as the past/imperfect subjunctive, but with -e endings instead of -a endings.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | me confiare |
| Tú | te confiares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se confiare |
| Nosotros / as | nos confiáremos |
| Vosotros / as | os confiareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se confiaren |
| Vos | te confiares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “trust!” and “don’t trust!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | confíate | no te confíes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | confíese | no se confíe |
| Nosotros / as | confiémonos | no nos confiemos |
| Vosotros / as | confiaos | no os confiéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | confíense | no se confíen |
| Vos | confiá | no te confíes |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya confiado |
| Tú | hayas confiado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya confiado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos confiado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis confiado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan confiado |
| Vos | hayas confiado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera confiado / hubiese confiado |
| Tú | hubieras confiado / hubieses confiado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera confiado / hubiese confiado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos confiado / hubiésemos confiado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais confiado / hubieseis confiado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran confiado / hubiesen confiado |
| Vos | hubieras confiado / hubieses confiado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere confiado |
| Tú | hubieres confiado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere confiado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos confiado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis confiado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren confiado |
| Vos | hubieres confiado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté confiándose |
| Tú | estés confiándose |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté confiándose |
| Nosotros / as | estemos confiándose |
| Vosotros / as | estéis confiándose |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén confiándose |
| Vos | estés confiándose |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera confiándose / estuviese confiándose |
| Tú | estuvieras confiándose / estuvieses confiándose |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera confiándose / estuviese confiándose |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos confiándose / estuviésamos confiándose |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais confiándose / estuvieseis confiándose |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera confiándose / estuviese confiándose |
| Vos | estuvieras confiándose / estuvieses confiándose |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere confiándose |
| Tú | estuvieres confiándose |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere confiándose |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos confiándose |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis confiándose |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere confiándose |
| Vos | estuvieres confiándose |
Voseo is the practice of using ‘vos’ instead of ‘tú’ as the second-person singular pronoun, and is common throughout much of South America.
There are various versions of ‘voseo’ used throughout the Spanish-speaking world. The conjugations for the most common type – used throughout Argentina, parts of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguya and Uruguay are below.
The present indicative (presente de indicativo) and affirmative imperative (imperativo) have different conjugations from the tú form, while all other tenses generally use the tú form.
| Tense | Vos Conjugation |
|---|---|
| Present Indicative Presente de Indicativo | Vos confiás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos te confiaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos te confiabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos te confiarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos te confiarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos te confíes |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos te confiaras / Vos me confiase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos confiá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no te confíes |