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Desordenar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to disarrange, make untidy”.
Below are all of the conjugations for desordenar 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 disarrange, make untidy |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | desordenar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está desordenando) and past continuous (estaba desordenando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. disarranging).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he desordenado and hubiera desordenado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have disarranged).
| Gerundio / Gerund | desordenando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | desordenado |
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 disarrange” or “they disarrange”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | desordeno |
| Tú | desordenas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desordena |
| Nosotros / as | desordenamos |
| Vosotros / as | desordenáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desordenan |
| Vos | desordenás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I disarranged” or “she disarranged” 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 | desordené | I disarranged |
| Tú | desordenaste | You disarranged |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desordenó | He / she / you disarranged |
| Nosotros / as | desordenamos | We disarranged |
| Vosotros / as | desordenasteis | You disarranged |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desordenaron | They / you disarranged |
| Vos | desordenaste | You disarranged |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was disarranging” or “she was disarranging” 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 | desordenaba | I was disarranging |
| Tú | desordenabas | You were disarranging |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desordenaba | He was / she was / you were disarranging |
| Nosotros / as | desordenábamos | We were disarranging |
| Vosotros / as | desordenabais | You were disarranging |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desordenaban | They / you were disarranging |
| Vos | desordenabas | You were disarranging |
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 disarranged” and “she has disarranged”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he desordenado | I have disarranged |
| Tú | has desordenado | You have disarranged |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha desordenado | He has / she has / you have disarranged |
| Nosotros / as | hemos desordenado | We have disarranged |
| Vosotros / as | habéis desordenado | You have disarranged |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han desordenado | They / you have disarranged |
| Vos | has desordenado | You have disarranged |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would disarrange” or “she would disarrange”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | desordenaría | I would disarrange |
| Tú | desordenarías | You would disarrange |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desordenaría | He / she / you would disarrange |
| Nosotros / as | desordenaríamos | We would disarrange |
| Vosotros / as | desordenaríais | You would disarrange |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desordenarían | They / you would disarrange |
| Vos | desordenarías | You would disarrange |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will disarrange” or “they will disarrange”.
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 desordenar” means “They are going to disarrange”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | desordenaré | I will disarrange |
| Tú | desordenarás | You will disarrange |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desordenará | He / she / you will disarrange |
| Nosotros / as | desordenaremos | We will disarrange |
| Vosotros / as | desordenaréis | You will disarrange |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desordenarán | They / you will disarrange |
| Vos | desordenarás | You will disarrange |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | desordene |
| Tú | desordenes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desordene |
| Nosotros / as | desordenemos |
| Vosotros / as | desordenéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desordenen |
| Vos | desordenes |
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 | desordenara | desordenase |
| Tú | desordenaras | desordenase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desordenara | desordenase |
| Nosotros / as | desordenáramos | desordenásemos |
| Vosotros / as | desordenarais | desordenaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desordenaran | desordenasen |
| Vos | desordenaras | desordenase |
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 | desordenare |
| Tú | desordenares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desordenare |
| Nosotros / as | desordenáremos |
| Vosotros / as | desordenareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desordenaren |
| Vos | desordenares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “disarrange!” and “don’t disarrange!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | desordena | no desordenes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desordene | no desordene |
| Nosotros / as | desordenemos | no desordenemos |
| Vosotros / as | desordenad | no desordenéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desordenen | no desordenen |
| Vos | desordená | no desordenes |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya desordenado |
| Tú | hayas desordenado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya desordenado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos desordenado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis desordenado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan desordenado |
| Vos | hayas desordenado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera desordenado / hubiese desordenado |
| Tú | hubieras desordenado / hubieses desordenado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera desordenado / hubiese desordenado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos desordenado / hubiésemos desordenado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais desordenado / hubieseis desordenado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran desordenado / hubiesen desordenado |
| Vos | hubieras desordenado / hubieses desordenado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere desordenado |
| Tú | hubieres desordenado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere desordenado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos desordenado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis desordenado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren desordenado |
| Vos | hubieres desordenado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté desordenando |
| Tú | estés desordenando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté desordenando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos desordenando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis desordenando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén desordenando |
| Vos | estés desordenando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera desordenando / estuviese desordenando |
| Tú | estuvieras desordenando / estuvieses desordenando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera desordenando / estuviese desordenando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos desordenando / estuviésamos desordenando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais desordenando / estuvieseis desordenando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera desordenando / estuviese desordenando |
| Vos | estuvieras desordenando / estuvieses desordenando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere desordenando |
| Tú | estuvieres desordenando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere desordenando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos desordenando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis desordenando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere desordenando |
| Vos | estuvieres desordenando |
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 desordenás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos desordenaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos desordenabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos desordenarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos desordenarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos desordenes |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos desordenaras / Vos desordenase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos desordená |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no desordenes |