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Desilusionar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to disillusion”.
Below are all of the conjugations for desilusionar 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 disillusion |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | desilusionar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está desilusionando) and past continuous (estaba desilusionando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. disillusioning).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he desilusionado and hubiera desilusionado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have disillusioned).
| Gerundio / Gerund | desilusionando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | desilusionado |
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 disillusion” or “they disillusion”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | desilusiono |
| Tú | desilusionas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desilusiona |
| Nosotros / as | desilusionamos |
| Vosotros / as | desilusionáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desilusionan |
| Vos | desilusionás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I disillusioned” or “she disillusioned” 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 | desilusioné | I disillusioned |
| Tú | desilusionaste | You disillusioned |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desilusionó | He / she / you disillusioned |
| Nosotros / as | desilusionamos | We disillusioned |
| Vosotros / as | desilusionasteis | You disillusioned |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desilusionaron | They / you disillusioned |
| Vos | desilusionaste | You disillusioned |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was disillusioning” or “she was disillusioning” 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 | desilusionaba | I was disillusioning |
| Tú | desilusionabas | You were disillusioning |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desilusionaba | He was / she was / you were disillusioning |
| Nosotros / as | desilusionábamos | We were disillusioning |
| Vosotros / as | desilusionabais | You were disillusioning |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desilusionaban | They / you were disillusioning |
| Vos | desilusionabas | You were disillusioning |
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 disillusioned” and “she has disillusioned”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he desilusionado | I have disillusioned |
| Tú | has desilusionado | You have disillusioned |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha desilusionado | He has / she has / you have disillusioned |
| Nosotros / as | hemos desilusionado | We have disillusioned |
| Vosotros / as | habéis desilusionado | You have disillusioned |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han desilusionado | They / you have disillusioned |
| Vos | has desilusionado | You have disillusioned |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would disillusion” or “she would disillusion”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | desilusionaría | I would disillusion |
| Tú | desilusionarías | You would disillusion |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desilusionaría | He / she / you would disillusion |
| Nosotros / as | desilusionaríamos | We would disillusion |
| Vosotros / as | desilusionaríais | You would disillusion |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desilusionarían | They / you would disillusion |
| Vos | desilusionarías | You would disillusion |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will disillusion” or “they will disillusion”.
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 desilusionar” means “They are going to disillusion”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | desilusionaré | I will disillusion |
| Tú | desilusionarás | You will disillusion |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desilusionará | He / she / you will disillusion |
| Nosotros / as | desilusionaremos | We will disillusion |
| Vosotros / as | desilusionaréis | You will disillusion |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desilusionarán | They / you will disillusion |
| Vos | desilusionarás | You will disillusion |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | desilusione |
| Tú | desilusiones |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desilusione |
| Nosotros / as | desilusionemos |
| Vosotros / as | desilusionéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desilusionen |
| Vos | desilusiones |
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 | desilusionara | desilusionase |
| Tú | desilusionaras | desilusionase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desilusionara | desilusionase |
| Nosotros / as | desilusionáramos | desilusionásemos |
| Vosotros / as | desilusionarais | desilusionaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desilusionaran | desilusionasen |
| Vos | desilusionaras | desilusionase |
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 | desilusionare |
| Tú | desilusionares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desilusionare |
| Nosotros / as | desilusionáremos |
| Vosotros / as | desilusionareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desilusionaren |
| Vos | desilusionares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “disillusion!” and “don’t disillusion!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | desilusiona | no desilusiones |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desilusione | no desilusione |
| Nosotros / as | desilusionemos | no desilusionemos |
| Vosotros / as | desilusionad | no desilusionéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desilusionen | no desilusionen |
| Vos | desilusioná | no desilusiones |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya desilusionado |
| Tú | hayas desilusionado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya desilusionado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos desilusionado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis desilusionado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan desilusionado |
| Vos | hayas desilusionado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera desilusionado / hubiese desilusionado |
| Tú | hubieras desilusionado / hubieses desilusionado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera desilusionado / hubiese desilusionado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos desilusionado / hubiésemos desilusionado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais desilusionado / hubieseis desilusionado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran desilusionado / hubiesen desilusionado |
| Vos | hubieras desilusionado / hubieses desilusionado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere desilusionado |
| Tú | hubieres desilusionado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere desilusionado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos desilusionado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis desilusionado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren desilusionado |
| Vos | hubieres desilusionado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté desilusionando |
| Tú | estés desilusionando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté desilusionando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos desilusionando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis desilusionando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén desilusionando |
| Vos | estés desilusionando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera desilusionando / estuviese desilusionando |
| Tú | estuvieras desilusionando / estuvieses desilusionando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera desilusionando / estuviese desilusionando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos desilusionando / estuviésamos desilusionando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais desilusionando / estuvieseis desilusionando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera desilusionando / estuviese desilusionando |
| Vos | estuvieras desilusionando / estuvieses desilusionando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere desilusionando |
| Tú | estuvieres desilusionando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere desilusionando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos desilusionando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis desilusionando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere desilusionando |
| Vos | estuvieres desilusionando |
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 desilusionás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos desilusionaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos desilusionabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos desilusionarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos desilusionarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos desilusiones |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos desilusionaras / Vos desilusionase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos desilusioná |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no desilusiones |