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Intensificar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to intensify”.
Below are all of the conjugations for intensificar 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 intensify |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | intensificar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está intensificando) and past continuous (estaba intensificando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. intensifying).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he intensificado and hubiera intensificado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have intensified).
| Gerundio / Gerund | intensificando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | intensificado |
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 intensify” or “they intensify”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | intensifico |
| Tú | intensificas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intensifica |
| Nosotros / as | intensificamos |
| Vosotros / as | intensificáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intensifican |
| Vos | intensificás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I intensified” or “she intensified” 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 | intensifiqué | I intensified |
| Tú | intensificaste | You intensified |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intensificó | He / she / you intensified |
| Nosotros / as | intensificamos | We intensified |
| Vosotros / as | intensificasteis | You intensified |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intensificaron | They / you intensified |
| Vos | intensificaste | You intensified |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was intensifying” or “she was intensifying” 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 | intensificaba | I was intensifying |
| Tú | intensificabas | You were intensifying |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intensificaba | He was / she was / you were intensifying |
| Nosotros / as | intensificábamos | We were intensifying |
| Vosotros / as | intensificabais | You were intensifying |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intensificaban | They / you were intensifying |
| Vos | intensificabas | You were intensifying |
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 intensified” and “she has intensified”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he intensificado | I have intensified |
| Tú | has intensificado | You have intensified |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha intensificado | He has / she has / you have intensified |
| Nosotros / as | hemos intensificado | We have intensified |
| Vosotros / as | habéis intensificado | You have intensified |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han intensificado | They / you have intensified |
| Vos | has intensificado | You have intensified |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would intensify” or “she would intensify”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | intensificaría | I would intensify |
| Tú | intensificarías | You would intensify |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intensificaría | He / she / you would intensify |
| Nosotros / as | intensificaríamos | We would intensify |
| Vosotros / as | intensificaríais | You would intensify |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intensificarían | They / you would intensify |
| Vos | intensificarías | You would intensify |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will intensify” or “they will intensify”.
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 intensificar” means “They are going to intensify”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | intensificaré | I will intensify |
| Tú | intensificarás | You will intensify |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intensificará | He / she / you will intensify |
| Nosotros / as | intensificaremos | We will intensify |
| Vosotros / as | intensificaréis | You will intensify |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intensificarán | They / you will intensify |
| Vos | intensificarás | You will intensify |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | intensifique |
| Tú | intensifiques |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intensifique |
| Nosotros / as | intensifiquemos |
| Vosotros / as | intensifiquéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intensifiquen |
| Vos | intensifiques |
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 | intensificara | intensificase |
| Tú | intensificaras | intensificase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intensificara | intensificase |
| Nosotros / as | intensificáramos | intensificásemos |
| Vosotros / as | intensificarais | intensificaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intensificaran | intensificasen |
| Vos | intensificaras | intensificase |
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 | intensificare |
| Tú | intensificares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intensificare |
| Nosotros / as | intensificáremos |
| Vosotros / as | intensificareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intensificaren |
| Vos | intensificares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “intensify!” and “don’t intensify!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | intensifica | no intensifiques |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intensifique | no intensifique |
| Nosotros / as | intensifiquemos | no intensifiquemos |
| Vosotros / as | intensificad | no intensifiquéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intensifiquen | no intensifiquen |
| Vos | intensificá | no intensifiques |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya intensificado |
| Tú | hayas intensificado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya intensificado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos intensificado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis intensificado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan intensificado |
| Vos | hayas intensificado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera intensificado / hubiese intensificado |
| Tú | hubieras intensificado / hubieses intensificado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera intensificado / hubiese intensificado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos intensificado / hubiésemos intensificado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais intensificado / hubieseis intensificado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran intensificado / hubiesen intensificado |
| Vos | hubieras intensificado / hubieses intensificado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere intensificado |
| Tú | hubieres intensificado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere intensificado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos intensificado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis intensificado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren intensificado |
| Vos | hubieres intensificado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté intensificando |
| Tú | estés intensificando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté intensificando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos intensificando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis intensificando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén intensificando |
| Vos | estés intensificando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera intensificando / estuviese intensificando |
| Tú | estuvieras intensificando / estuvieses intensificando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera intensificando / estuviese intensificando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos intensificando / estuviésamos intensificando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais intensificando / estuvieseis intensificando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera intensificando / estuviese intensificando |
| Vos | estuvieras intensificando / estuvieses intensificando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere intensificando |
| Tú | estuvieres intensificando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere intensificando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos intensificando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis intensificando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere intensificando |
| Vos | estuvieres intensificando |
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 intensificás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos intensificaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos intensificabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos intensificarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos intensificarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos intensifiques |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos intensificaras / Vos intensificase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos intensificá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no intensifiques |