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Curiosear is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to pry, investigate, snoop”.
Below are all of the conjugations for curiosear 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 pry, investigate, snoop |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | curiosear |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está curioseando) and past continuous (estaba curioseando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. prying).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he curioseado and hubiera curioseado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have pried).
| Gerundio / Gerund | curioseando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | curioseado |
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 pry” or “they pry”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | curioseo |
| Tú | curioseas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | curiosea |
| Nosotros / as | curioseamos |
| Vosotros / as | curioseáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | curiosean |
| Vos | curioseás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I pried” or “she pried” 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 | curioseé | I pried |
| Tú | curioseaste | You pried |
| Él / Ella / Usted | curioseó | He / she / you pried |
| Nosotros / as | curioseamos | We pried |
| Vosotros / as | curioseasteis | You pried |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | curiosearon | They / you pried |
| Vos | curioseaste | You pried |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was prying” or “she was prying” 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 | curioseaba | I was prying |
| Tú | curioseabas | You were prying |
| Él / Ella / Usted | curioseaba | He was / she was / you were prying |
| Nosotros / as | curioseábamos | We were prying |
| Vosotros / as | curioseabais | You were prying |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | curioseaban | They / you were prying |
| Vos | curioseabas | You were prying |
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 pried” and “she has pried”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he curioseado | I have pried |
| Tú | has curioseado | You have pried |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha curioseado | He has / she has / you have pried |
| Nosotros / as | hemos curioseado | We have pried |
| Vosotros / as | habéis curioseado | You have pried |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han curioseado | They / you have pried |
| Vos | has curioseado | You have pried |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would pry” or “she would pry”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | curiosearía | I would pry |
| Tú | curiosearías | You would pry |
| Él / Ella / Usted | curiosearía | He / she / you would pry |
| Nosotros / as | curiosearíamos | We would pry |
| Vosotros / as | curiosearíais | You would pry |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | curiosearían | They / you would pry |
| Vos | curiosearías | You would pry |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will pry” or “they will pry”.
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 curiosear” means “They are going to pry”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | curiosearé | I will pry |
| Tú | curiosearás | You will pry |
| Él / Ella / Usted | curioseará | He / she / you will pry |
| Nosotros / as | curiosearemos | We will pry |
| Vosotros / as | curiosearéis | You will pry |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | curiosearán | They / you will pry |
| Vos | curiosearás | You will pry |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | curiosee |
| Tú | curiosees |
| Él / Ella / Usted | curiosee |
| Nosotros / as | curioseemos |
| Vosotros / as | curioseéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | curioseen |
| Vos | curiosees |
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 | curioseara | curiosease |
| Tú | curiosearas | curiosease |
| Él / Ella / Usted | curioseara | curiosease |
| Nosotros / as | curioseáramos | curioseásemos |
| Vosotros / as | curiosearais | curioseaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | curiosearan | curioseasen |
| Vos | curiosearas | curiosease |
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 | curioseare |
| Tú | curioseares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | curioseare |
| Nosotros / as | curioseáremos |
| Vosotros / as | curioseareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | curiosearen |
| Vos | curioseares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “pry!” and “don’t pry!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | curiosea | no curiosees |
| Él / Ella / Usted | curiosee | no curiosee |
| Nosotros / as | curioseemos | no curioseemos |
| Vosotros / as | curiosead | no curioseéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | curioseen | no curioseen |
| Vos | curioseá | no curiosees |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya curioseado |
| Tú | hayas curioseado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya curioseado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos curioseado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis curioseado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan curioseado |
| Vos | hayas curioseado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera curioseado / hubiese curioseado |
| Tú | hubieras curioseado / hubieses curioseado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera curioseado / hubiese curioseado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos curioseado / hubiésemos curioseado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais curioseado / hubieseis curioseado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran curioseado / hubiesen curioseado |
| Vos | hubieras curioseado / hubieses curioseado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere curioseado |
| Tú | hubieres curioseado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere curioseado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos curioseado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis curioseado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren curioseado |
| Vos | hubieres curioseado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté curioseando |
| Tú | estés curioseando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté curioseando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos curioseando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis curioseando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén curioseando |
| Vos | estés curioseando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera curioseando / estuviese curioseando |
| Tú | estuvieras curioseando / estuvieses curioseando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera curioseando / estuviese curioseando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos curioseando / estuviésamos curioseando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais curioseando / estuvieseis curioseando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera curioseando / estuviese curioseando |
| Vos | estuvieras curioseando / estuvieses curioseando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere curioseando |
| Tú | estuvieres curioseando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere curioseando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos curioseando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis curioseando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere curioseando |
| Vos | estuvieres curioseando |
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 curioseás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos curioseaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos curioseabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos curiosearías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos curiosearás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos curiosees |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos curiosearas / Vos curiosease |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos curioseá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no curiosees |