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Acompañar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to accompany, escort”.
Below are all of the conjugations for acompañar 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 accompany, escort |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | acompañar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está acompañando) and past continuous (estaba acompañando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. accompanying).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he acompañado and hubiera acompañado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have accompanied).
| Gerundio / Gerund | acompañando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | acompañado |
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 accompany” or “they accompany”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | acompaño |
| Tú | acompañas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | acompaña |
| Nosotros / as | acompañamos |
| Vosotros / as | acompañáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | acompañan |
| Vos | acompañás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I accompanied” or “she accompanied” 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 | acompañé | I accompanied |
| Tú | acompañaste | You accompanied |
| Él / Ella / Usted | acompañó | He / she / you accompanied |
| Nosotros / as | acompañamos | We accompanied |
| Vosotros / as | acompañasteis | You accompanied |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | acompañaron | They / you accompanied |
| Vos | acompañaste | You accompanied |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was accompanying” or “she was accompanying” 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 | acompañaba | I was accompanying |
| Tú | acompañabas | You were accompanying |
| Él / Ella / Usted | acompañaba | He was / she was / you were accompanying |
| Nosotros / as | acompañábamos | We were accompanying |
| Vosotros / as | acompañabais | You were accompanying |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | acompañaban | They / you were accompanying |
| Vos | acompañabas | You were accompanying |
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 accompanied” and “she has accompanied”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he acompañado | I have accompanied |
| Tú | has acompañado | You have accompanied |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha acompañado | He has / she has / you have accompanied |
| Nosotros / as | hemos acompañado | We have accompanied |
| Vosotros / as | habéis acompañado | You have accompanied |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han acompañado | They / you have accompanied |
| Vos | has acompañado | You have accompanied |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would accompany” or “she would accompany”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | acompañaría | I would accompany |
| Tú | acompañarías | You would accompany |
| Él / Ella / Usted | acompañaría | He / she / you would accompany |
| Nosotros / as | acompañaríamos | We would accompany |
| Vosotros / as | acompañaríais | You would accompany |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | acompañarían | They / you would accompany |
| Vos | acompañarías | You would accompany |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will accompany” or “they will accompany”.
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 acompañar” means “They are going to accompany”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | acompañaré | I will accompany |
| Tú | acompañarás | You will accompany |
| Él / Ella / Usted | acompañará | He / she / you will accompany |
| Nosotros / as | acompañaremos | We will accompany |
| Vosotros / as | acompañaréis | You will accompany |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | acompañarán | They / you will accompany |
| Vos | acompañarás | You will accompany |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | acompañe |
| Tú | acompañes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | acompañe |
| Nosotros / as | acompañemos |
| Vosotros / as | acompañéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | acompañen |
| Vos | acompañes |
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 | acompañara | acompañase |
| Tú | acompañaras | acompañase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | acompañara | acompañase |
| Nosotros / as | acompañáramos | acompañásemos |
| Vosotros / as | acompañarais | acompañaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | acompañaran | acompañasen |
| Vos | acompañaras | acompañase |
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 | acompañare |
| Tú | acompañares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | acompañare |
| Nosotros / as | acompañáremos |
| Vosotros / as | acompañareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | acompañaren |
| Vos | acompañares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “accompany!” and “don’t accompany!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | acompaña | no acompañes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | acompañe | no acompañe |
| Nosotros / as | acompañemos | no acompañemos |
| Vosotros / as | acompañad | no acompañéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | acompañen | no acompañen |
| Vos | acompañá | no acompañes |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya acompañado |
| Tú | hayas acompañado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya acompañado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos acompañado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis acompañado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan acompañado |
| Vos | hayas acompañado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera acompañado / hubiese acompañado |
| Tú | hubieras acompañado / hubieses acompañado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera acompañado / hubiese acompañado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos acompañado / hubiésemos acompañado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais acompañado / hubieseis acompañado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran acompañado / hubiesen acompañado |
| Vos | hubieras acompañado / hubieses acompañado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere acompañado |
| Tú | hubieres acompañado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere acompañado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos acompañado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis acompañado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren acompañado |
| Vos | hubieres acompañado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté acompañando |
| Tú | estés acompañando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté acompañando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos acompañando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis acompañando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén acompañando |
| Vos | estés acompañando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera acompañando / estuviese acompañando |
| Tú | estuvieras acompañando / estuvieses acompañando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera acompañando / estuviese acompañando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos acompañando / estuviésamos acompañando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais acompañando / estuvieseis acompañando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera acompañando / estuviese acompañando |
| Vos | estuvieras acompañando / estuvieses acompañando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere acompañando |
| Tú | estuvieres acompañando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere acompañando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos acompañando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis acompañando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere acompañando |
| Vos | estuvieres acompañando |
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 acompañás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos acompañaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos acompañabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos acompañarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos acompañarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos acompañes |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos acompañaras / Vos acompañase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos acompañá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no acompañes |