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Apurarse is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to hurry, worry, get anxious, finish up”.
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 apuro) or after the infinitive (e.g. Él tiene que apurarse).
Below are all of the conjugations for apurarse 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 hurry, worry, get anxious, finish up |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | apurarse |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está apurándose) and past continuous (estaba apurándose). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. hurrying).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he apurado and hubiera apurado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have hurried).
| Gerundio / Gerund | apurándose |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | apurado |
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 hurry” or “they hurry”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | me apuro |
| Tú | te apuras |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se apura |
| Nosotros / as | nos apuramos |
| Vosotros / as | os apuráis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se apuran |
| Vos | te apurás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I hurried” or “she hurried” 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 apuré | I hurried |
| Tú | te apuraste | You hurried |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se apuró | He / she / you hurried |
| Nosotros / as | nos apuramos | We hurried |
| Vosotros / as | os apurasteis | You hurried |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se apuraron | They / you hurried |
| Vos | te apuraste | You hurried |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was hurrying” or “she was hurrying” 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 apuraba | I was hurrying |
| Tú | te apurabas | You were hurrying |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se apuraba | He was / she was / you were hurrying |
| Nosotros / as | nos apurábamos | We were hurrying |
| Vosotros / as | os apurabais | You were hurrying |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se apuraban | They / you were hurrying |
| Vos | te apurabas | You were hurrying |
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 hurried” and “she has hurried”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me he apurado | I have hurried |
| Tú | te has apurado | You have hurried |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se ha apurado | He has / she has / you have hurried |
| Nosotros / as | nos hemos apurado | We have hurried |
| Vosotros / as | os habéis apurado | You have hurried |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se han apurado | They / you have hurried |
| Vos | te has apurado | You have hurried |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would hurry” or “she would hurry”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me apuraría | I would hurry |
| Tú | te apurarías | You would hurry |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se apuraría | He / she / you would hurry |
| Nosotros / as | nos apuraríamos | We would hurry |
| Vosotros / as | os apuraríais | You would hurry |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se apurarían | They / you would hurry |
| Vos | te apurarías | You would hurry |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will hurry” or “they will hurry”.
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 apurarse” means “They are going to hurry”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me apuraré | I will hurry |
| Tú | te apurarás | You will hurry |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se apurará | He / she / you will hurry |
| Nosotros / as | nos apuraremos | We will hurry |
| Vosotros / as | os apuraréis | You will hurry |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se apurarán | They / you will hurry |
| Vos | te apurarás | You will hurry |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | me apure |
| Tú | te apures |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se apure |
| Nosotros / as | nos apuremos |
| Vosotros / as | os apuréis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se apuren |
| Vos | te apures |
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 apurara | me apurase |
| Tú | te apuraras | me apurase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se apurara | se apurase |
| Nosotros / as | nos apuráramos | nos apurásemos |
| Vosotros / as | os apurarais | os apuraseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se apuraran | se apurasen |
| Vos | te apuraras | me apurase |
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 apurare |
| Tú | te apurares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se apurare |
| Nosotros / as | nos apuráremos |
| Vosotros / as | os apurareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se apuraren |
| Vos | te apurares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “hurry!” and “don’t hurry!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | apúrate | no te apures |
| Él / Ella / Usted | apúrese | no se apure |
| Nosotros / as | apurémonos | no nos apuremos |
| Vosotros / as | apuraos | no os apuréis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | apúrense | no se apuren |
| Vos | apurate | no te apures |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya apurado |
| Tú | hayas apurado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya apurado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos apurado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis apurado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan apurado |
| Vos | hayas apurado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera apurado / hubiese apurado |
| Tú | hubieras apurado / hubieses apurado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera apurado / hubiese apurado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos apurado / hubiésemos apurado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais apurado / hubieseis apurado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran apurado / hubiesen apurado |
| Vos | hubieras apurado / hubieses apurado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere apurado |
| Tú | hubieres apurado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere apurado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos apurado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis apurado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren apurado |
| Vos | hubieres apurado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté apurándose |
| Tú | estés apurándose |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté apurándose |
| Nosotros / as | estemos apurándose |
| Vosotros / as | estéis apurándose |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén apurándose |
| Vos | estés apurándose |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera apurándose / estuviese apurándose |
| Tú | estuvieras apurándose / estuvieses apurándose |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera apurándose / estuviese apurándose |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos apurándose / estuviésamos apurándose |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais apurándose / estuvieseis apurándose |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera apurándose / estuviese apurándose |
| Vos | estuvieras apurándose / estuvieses apurándose |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere apurándose |
| Tú | estuvieres apurándose |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere apurándose |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos apurándose |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis apurándose |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere apurándose |
| Vos | estuvieres apurándose |
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 apurás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos te apuraste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos te apurabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos te apurarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos te apurarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos te apures |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos te apuraras / Vos me apurase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos apurate |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no te apures |