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Intoxicar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to poison, intoxicate”.
Below are all of the conjugations for intoxicar 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 poison, intoxicate |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | intoxicar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está intoxicando) and past continuous (estaba intoxicando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. poisoning).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he intoxicado and hubiera intoxicado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have poisoned).
| Gerundio / Gerund | intoxicando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | intoxicado |
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 poison” or “they poison”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | intoxico |
| Tú | intoxicas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intoxica |
| Nosotros / as | intoxicamos |
| Vosotros / as | intoxicáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intoxican |
| Vos | intoxicás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I poisoned” or “she poisoned” 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 | intoxiqué | I poisoned |
| Tú | intoxicaste | You poisoned |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intoxicó | He / she / you poisoned |
| Nosotros / as | intoxicamos | We poisoned |
| Vosotros / as | intoxicasteis | You poisoned |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intoxicaron | They / you poisoned |
| Vos | intoxicaste | You poisoned |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was poisoning” or “she was poisoning” 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 | intoxicaba | I was poisoning |
| Tú | intoxicabas | You were poisoning |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intoxicaba | He was / she was / you were poisoning |
| Nosotros / as | intoxicábamos | We were poisoning |
| Vosotros / as | intoxicabais | You were poisoning |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intoxicaban | They / you were poisoning |
| Vos | intoxicabas | You were poisoning |
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 poisoned” and “she has poisoned”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he intoxicado | I have poisoned |
| Tú | has intoxicado | You have poisoned |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha intoxicado | He has / she has / you have poisoned |
| Nosotros / as | hemos intoxicado | We have poisoned |
| Vosotros / as | habéis intoxicado | You have poisoned |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han intoxicado | They / you have poisoned |
| Vos | has intoxicado | You have poisoned |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would poison” or “she would poison”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | intoxicaría | I would poison |
| Tú | intoxicarías | You would poison |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intoxicaría | He / she / you would poison |
| Nosotros / as | intoxicaríamos | We would poison |
| Vosotros / as | intoxicaríais | You would poison |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intoxicarían | They / you would poison |
| Vos | intoxicarías | You would poison |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will poison” or “they will poison”.
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 intoxicar” means “They are going to poison”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | intoxicaré | I will poison |
| Tú | intoxicarás | You will poison |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intoxicará | He / she / you will poison |
| Nosotros / as | intoxicaremos | We will poison |
| Vosotros / as | intoxicaréis | You will poison |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intoxicarán | They / you will poison |
| Vos | intoxicarás | You will poison |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | intoxique |
| Tú | intoxiques |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intoxique |
| Nosotros / as | intoxiquemos |
| Vosotros / as | intoxiquéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intoxiquen |
| Vos | intoxiques |
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 | intoxicara | intoxicase |
| Tú | intoxicaras | intoxicase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intoxicara | intoxicase |
| Nosotros / as | intoxicáramos | intoxicásemos |
| Vosotros / as | intoxicarais | intoxicaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intoxicaran | intoxicasen |
| Vos | intoxicaras | intoxicase |
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 | intoxicare |
| Tú | intoxicares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intoxicare |
| Nosotros / as | intoxicáremos |
| Vosotros / as | intoxicareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intoxicaren |
| Vos | intoxicares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “poison!” and “don’t poison!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | intoxica | no intoxiques |
| Él / Ella / Usted | intoxique | no intoxique |
| Nosotros / as | intoxiquemos | no intoxiquemos |
| Vosotros / as | intoxicad | no intoxiquéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | intoxiquen | no intoxiquen |
| Vos | intoxicá | no intoxiques |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya intoxicado |
| Tú | hayas intoxicado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya intoxicado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos intoxicado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis intoxicado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan intoxicado |
| Vos | hayas intoxicado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera intoxicado / hubiese intoxicado |
| Tú | hubieras intoxicado / hubieses intoxicado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera intoxicado / hubiese intoxicado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos intoxicado / hubiésemos intoxicado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais intoxicado / hubieseis intoxicado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran intoxicado / hubiesen intoxicado |
| Vos | hubieras intoxicado / hubieses intoxicado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere intoxicado |
| Tú | hubieres intoxicado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere intoxicado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos intoxicado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis intoxicado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren intoxicado |
| Vos | hubieres intoxicado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté intoxicando |
| Tú | estés intoxicando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté intoxicando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos intoxicando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis intoxicando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén intoxicando |
| Vos | estés intoxicando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera intoxicando / estuviese intoxicando |
| Tú | estuvieras intoxicando / estuvieses intoxicando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera intoxicando / estuviese intoxicando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos intoxicando / estuviésamos intoxicando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais intoxicando / estuvieseis intoxicando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera intoxicando / estuviese intoxicando |
| Vos | estuvieras intoxicando / estuvieses intoxicando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere intoxicando |
| Tú | estuvieres intoxicando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere intoxicando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos intoxicando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis intoxicando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere intoxicando |
| Vos | estuvieres intoxicando |
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 intoxicás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos intoxicaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos intoxicabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos intoxicarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos intoxicarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos intoxiques |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos intoxicaras / Vos intoxicase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos intoxicá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no intoxiques |