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Adjudicar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to award, adjudge”.
Below are all of the conjugations for adjudicar 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 award, adjudge |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | adjudicar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está adjudicando) and past continuous (estaba adjudicando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. awarding).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he adjudicado and hubiera adjudicado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have awarded).
| Gerundio / Gerund | adjudicando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | adjudicado |
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 award” or “they award”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | adjudico |
| Tú | adjudicas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | adjudica |
| Nosotros / as | adjudicamos |
| Vosotros / as | adjudicáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | adjudican |
| Vos | administrás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I awarded” or “she awarded” 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 | adjudiqué | I awarded |
| Tú | adjudicaste | You awarded |
| Él / Ella / Usted | adjudicó | He / she / you awarded |
| Nosotros / as | adjudicamos | We awarded |
| Vosotros / as | adjudicasteis | You awarded |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | adjudicaron | They / you awarded |
| Vos | adjudicaste | You awarded |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was awarding” or “she was awarding” 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 | adjudicaba | I was awarding |
| Tú | adjudicabas | You were awarding |
| Él / Ella / Usted | adjudicaba | He was / she was / you were awarding |
| Nosotros / as | adjudicábamos | We were awarding |
| Vosotros / as | adjudicabais | You were awarding |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | adjudicaban | They / you were awarding |
| Vos | adjudicabas | You were awarding |
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 awarded” and “she has awarded”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he adjudicado | I have awarded |
| Tú | has adjudicado | You have awarded |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha adjudicado | He has / she has / you have awarded |
| Nosotros / as | hemos adjudicado | We have awarded |
| Vosotros / as | habéis adjudicado | You have awarded |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han adjudicado | They / you have awarded |
| Vos | has adjudicado | You have awarded |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would award” or “she would award”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | adjudicaría | I would award |
| Tú | adjudicarías | You would award |
| Él / Ella / Usted | adjudicaría | He / she / you would award |
| Nosotros / as | adjudicaríamos | We would award |
| Vosotros / as | adjudicaríais | You would award |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | adjudicarían | They / you would award |
| Vos | adjudicarías | You would award |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will award” or “they will award”.
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 adjudicar” means “They are going to award”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | adjudicaré | I will award |
| Tú | adjudicarás | You will award |
| Él / Ella / Usted | adjudicará | He / she / you will award |
| Nosotros / as | adjudicaremos | We will award |
| Vosotros / as | adjudicaréis | You will award |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | adjudicarán | They / you will award |
| Vos | adjudicarás | You will award |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | adjudique |
| Tú | adjudiques |
| Él / Ella / Usted | adjudique |
| Nosotros / as | adjudiquemos |
| Vosotros / as | adjudiquéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | adjudiquen |
| Vos | adjudiques |
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 | adjudicara | adjudicase |
| Tú | adjudicaras | adjudicase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | adjudicara | adjudicase |
| Nosotros / as | adjudicáramos | adjudicásemos |
| Vosotros / as | adjudicarais | adjudicaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | adjudicaran | adjudicasen |
| Vos | adjudicaras | adjudicase |
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 | adjudicare |
| Tú | adjudicares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | adjudicare |
| Nosotros / as | adjudicáremos |
| Vosotros / as | adjudicareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | adjudicaren |
| Vos | adjudicares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “award!” and “don’t award!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | adjudica | no adjudiques |
| Él / Ella / Usted | adjudique | no adjudique |
| Nosotros / as | adjudiquemos | no adjudiquemos |
| Vosotros / as | adjudicad | no adjudiquéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | adjudiquen | no adjudiquen |
| Vos | adjudicá | no adjudiques |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya adjudicado |
| Tú | hayas adjudicado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya adjudicado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos adjudicado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis adjudicado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan adjudicado |
| Vos | hayas adjudicado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera adjudicado / hubiese adjudicado |
| Tú | hubieras adjudicado / hubieses adjudicado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera adjudicado / hubiese adjudicado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos adjudicado / hubiésemos adjudicado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais adjudicado / hubieseis adjudicado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran adjudicado / hubiesen adjudicado |
| Vos | hubieras adjudicado / hubieses adjudicado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere adjudicado |
| Tú | hubieres adjudicado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere adjudicado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos adjudicado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis adjudicado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren adjudicado |
| Vos | hubieres adjudicado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté adjudicando |
| Tú | estés adjudicando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté adjudicando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos adjudicando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis adjudicando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén adjudicando |
| Vos | estés adjudicando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera adjudicando / estuviese adjudicando |
| Tú | estuvieras adjudicando / estuvieses adjudicando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera adjudicando / estuviese adjudicando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos adjudicando / estuviésamos adjudicando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais adjudicando / estuvieseis adjudicando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera adjudicando / estuviese adjudicando |
| Vos | estuvieras adjudicando / estuvieses adjudicando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere adjudicando |
| Tú | estuvieres adjudicando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere adjudicando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos adjudicando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis adjudicando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere adjudicando |
| Vos | estuvieres adjudicando |
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 administrás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos adjudicaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos adjudicabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos adjudicarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos adjudicarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos adjudiques |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos adjudicaras / Vos adjudicase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos adjudicá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no adjudiques |