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Fugarse is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to escape, flee”.
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 fugo) or after the infinitive (e.g. Él tiene que fugarse).
Below are all of the conjugations for fugarse 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 escape, flee |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | fugarse |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está fugándose) and past continuous (estaba fugándose). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. escaped).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he escaped and hubiera escaped. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have escaping).
| Gerundio / Gerund | fugándose |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | escaped |
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 escape” or “they escape”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | me fugo |
| Tú | te fugas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se fuga |
| Nosotros / as | nos fugamos |
| Vosotros / as | os fugáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se fugan |
| Vos | te fugás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I escape” or “she escape” 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 fugué | I escape |
| Tú | te fugaste | You escape |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se fugó | He / she / you escape |
| Nosotros / as | nos fugamos | We escape |
| Vosotros / as | os fugasteis | You escape |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se fugaron | They / you escape |
| Vos | te fugaste | You escape |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was escaped” or “she was escaped” 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 fugaba | I was escaped |
| Tú | te fugabas | You were escaped |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se fugaba | He was / she was / you were escaped |
| Nosotros / as | nos fugábamos | We were escaped |
| Vosotros / as | os fugabais | You were escaped |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se fugaban | They / you were escaped |
| Vos | te fugabas | You were escaped |
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 escaping” and “she has escaping”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me he escaped | I have escaping |
| Tú | te has escaped | You have escaping |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se ha escaped | He has / she has / you have escaping |
| Nosotros / as | nos hemos escaped | We have escaping |
| Vosotros / as | os habéis escaped | You have escaping |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se han escaped | They / you have escaping |
| Vos | te has escaped | You have escaping |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would escape” or “she would escape”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me fugaría | I would escape |
| Tú | te fugarías | You would escape |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se fugaría | He / she / you would escape |
| Nosotros / as | nos fugaríamos | We would escape |
| Vosotros / as | os fugaríais | You would escape |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se fugarían | They / you would escape |
| Vos | te fugarías | You would escape |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will escape” or “they will escape”.
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 fugarse” means “They are going to escape”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me fugaré | I will escape |
| Tú | te fugarás | You will escape |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se fugará | He / she / you will escape |
| Nosotros / as | nos fugaremos | We will escape |
| Vosotros / as | os fugaréis | You will escape |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se fugarán | They / you will escape |
| Vos | te fugarás | You will escape |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | me fugue |
| Tú | te fugues |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se fugue |
| Nosotros / as | nos fuguemos |
| Vosotros / as | os fuguéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se fuguen |
| Vos | te fugues |
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 fugara | me fugase |
| Tú | te fugaras | me fugase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se fugara | se fugase |
| Nosotros / as | nos fugáramos | nos fugásemos |
| Vosotros / as | os fugarais | os fugaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se fugaran | se fugasen |
| Vos | te fugaras | me fugase |
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 fugare |
| Tú | te fugares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se fugare |
| Nosotros / as | nos fugáremos |
| Vosotros / as | os fugareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se fugaren |
| Vos | te fugares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “escape!” and “don’t escape!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | fugate | no te fugues |
| Él / Ella / Usted | fugúese | no se fugue |
| Nosotros / as | fuguémonos | no nos fuguemos |
| Vosotros / as | fugaos | no os fuguéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | fugúense | no se fuguen |
| Vos | fugate | no te fugues |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya escaped |
| Tú | hayas escaped |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya escaped |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos escaped |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis escaped |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan escaped |
| Vos | hayas escaped |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera escaped / hubiese escaped |
| Tú | hubieras escaped / hubieses escaped |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera escaped / hubiese escaped |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos escaped / hubiésemos escaped |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais escaped / hubieseis escaped |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran escaped / hubiesen escaped |
| Vos | hubieras escaped / hubieses escaped |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere escaped |
| Tú | hubieres escaped |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere escaped |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos escaped |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis escaped |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren escaped |
| Vos | hubieres escaped |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté fugándose |
| Tú | estés fugándose |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté fugándose |
| Nosotros / as | estemos fugándose |
| Vosotros / as | estéis fugándose |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén fugándose |
| Vos | estés fugándose |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera fugándose / estuviese fugándose |
| Tú | estuvieras fugándose / estuvieses fugándose |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera fugándose / estuviese fugándose |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos fugándose / estuviésamos fugándose |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais fugándose / estuvieseis fugándose |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera fugándose / estuviese fugándose |
| Vos | estuvieras fugándose / estuvieses fugándose |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere fugándose |
| Tú | estuvieres fugándose |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere fugándose |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos fugándose |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis fugándose |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere fugándose |
| Vos | estuvieres fugándose |
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 te fugás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos te fugaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos te fugabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos te fugarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos te fugarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos te fugues |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos te fugaras / Vos me fugase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos fugate |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no te fugues |