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Aterrorizar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to terrify, frighten”.
Below are all of the conjugations for aterrorizar 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 terrify, frighten |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | aterrorizar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está aterrorizando) and past continuous (estaba aterrorizando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. terrifying).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he aterrorizado and hubiera aterrorizado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have terrified).
| Gerundio / Gerund | aterrorizando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | aterrorizado |
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 terrify” or “they terrify”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | aterrorizo |
| Tú | aterrorizas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | aterroriza |
| Nosotros / as | aterrorizamos |
| Vosotros / as | aterrorizáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | aterrorizan |
| Vos | aterrorizás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I terrified” or “she terrified” 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 | aterroricé | I terrified |
| Tú | aterrorizaste | You terrified |
| Él / Ella / Usted | aterrorizó | He / she / you terrified |
| Nosotros / as | aterrorizamos | We terrified |
| Vosotros / as | aterrorizasteis | You terrified |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | aterrorizaron | They / you terrified |
| Vos | aterrorizaste | You terrified |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was terrifying” or “she was terrifying” 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 | aterrorizaba | I was terrifying |
| Tú | aterrorizabas | You were terrifying |
| Él / Ella / Usted | aterrorizaba | He was / she was / you were terrifying |
| Nosotros / as | aterrorizábamos | We were terrifying |
| Vosotros / as | aterrorizabais | You were terrifying |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | aterrorizaban | They / you were terrifying |
| Vos | aterrorizabas | You were terrifying |
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 terrified” and “she has terrified”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he aterrorizado | I have terrified |
| Tú | has aterrorizado | You have terrified |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha aterrorizado | He has / she has / you have terrified |
| Nosotros / as | hemos aterrorizado | We have terrified |
| Vosotros / as | habéis aterrorizado | You have terrified |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han aterrorizado | They / you have terrified |
| Vos | has aterrorizado | You have terrified |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would terrify” or “she would terrify”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | aterrorizaría | I would terrify |
| Tú | aterrorizarías | You would terrify |
| Él / Ella / Usted | aterrorizaría | He / she / you would terrify |
| Nosotros / as | aterrorizaríamos | We would terrify |
| Vosotros / as | aterrorizaríais | You would terrify |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | aterrorizarían | They / you would terrify |
| Vos | aterrorizarías | You would terrify |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will terrify” or “they will terrify”.
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 aterrorizar” means “They are going to terrify”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | aterrorizaré | I will terrify |
| Tú | aterrorizarás | You will terrify |
| Él / Ella / Usted | aterrorizará | He / she / you will terrify |
| Nosotros / as | aterrorizaremos | We will terrify |
| Vosotros / as | aterrorizaréis | You will terrify |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | aterrorizarán | They / you will terrify |
| Vos | aterrorizarás | You will terrify |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | aterrorice |
| Tú | aterrorices |
| Él / Ella / Usted | aterrorice |
| Nosotros / as | aterroricemos |
| Vosotros / as | aterroricéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | aterroricen |
| Vos | aterrorices |
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 | aterrorizara | aterrorizase |
| Tú | aterrorizaras | aterrorizase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | aterrorizara | aterrorizase |
| Nosotros / as | aterrorizáramos | aterrorizásemos |
| Vosotros / as | aterrorizarais | aterrorizaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | aterrorizaran | aterrorizasen |
| Vos | aterrorizaras | aterrorizase |
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 | aterrorizare |
| Tú | aterrorizares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | aterrorizare |
| Nosotros / as | aterrorizáremos |
| Vosotros / as | aterrorizareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | aterrorizaren |
| Vos | aterrorizares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “terrify!” and “don’t terrify!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | aterroriza | no aterrorices |
| Él / Ella / Usted | aterrorice | no aterrorice |
| Nosotros / as | aterroricemos | no aterroricemos |
| Vosotros / as | aterrorizad | no aterroricéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | aterroricen | no aterroricen |
| Vos | aterrorizá | no aterrorices |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya aterrorizado |
| Tú | hayas aterrorizado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya aterrorizado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos aterrorizado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis aterrorizado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan aterrorizado |
| Vos | hayas aterrorizado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera aterrorizado / hubiese aterrorizado |
| Tú | hubieras aterrorizado / hubieses aterrorizado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera aterrorizado / hubiese aterrorizado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos aterrorizado / hubiésemos aterrorizado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais aterrorizado / hubieseis aterrorizado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran aterrorizado / hubiesen aterrorizado |
| Vos | hubieras aterrorizado / hubieses aterrorizado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere aterrorizado |
| Tú | hubieres aterrorizado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere aterrorizado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos aterrorizado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis aterrorizado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren aterrorizado |
| Vos | hubieres aterrorizado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté aterrorizando |
| Tú | estés aterrorizando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté aterrorizando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos aterrorizando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis aterrorizando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén aterrorizando |
| Vos | estés aterrorizando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera aterrorizando / estuviese aterrorizando |
| Tú | estuvieras aterrorizando / estuvieses aterrorizando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera aterrorizando / estuviese aterrorizando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos aterrorizando / estuviésamos aterrorizando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais aterrorizando / estuvieseis aterrorizando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera aterrorizando / estuviese aterrorizando |
| Vos | estuvieras aterrorizando / estuvieses aterrorizando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere aterrorizando |
| Tú | estuvieres aterrorizando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere aterrorizando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos aterrorizando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis aterrorizando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere aterrorizando |
| Vos | estuvieres aterrorizando |
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 aterrorizás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos aterrorizaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos aterrorizabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos aterrorizarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos aterrorizarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos aterrorices |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos aterrorizaras / Vos aterrorizase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos aterrorizá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no aterrorices |