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Codiciar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to covet”.
Below are all of the conjugations for codiciar 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 covet |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | codiciar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está codiciando) and past continuous (estaba codiciando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. coveting).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he codiciado and hubiera codiciado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have coveted).
| Gerundio / Gerund | codiciando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | codiciado |
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 covet” or “they covet”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | codicio |
| Tú | codicias |
| Él / Ella / Usted | codicia |
| Nosotros / as | codiciamos |
| Vosotros / as | codiciáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | codician |
| Vos | codiciás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I coveted” or “she coveted” 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 | codicié | I coveted |
| Tú | codiciaste | You coveted |
| Él / Ella / Usted | codició | He / she / you coveted |
| Nosotros / as | codiciamos | We coveted |
| Vosotros / as | codiciasteis | You coveted |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | codiciaron | They / you coveted |
| Vos | codiciaste | You coveted |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was coveting” or “she was coveting” 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 | codiciaba | I was coveting |
| Tú | codiciabas | You were coveting |
| Él / Ella / Usted | codiciaba | He was / she was / you were coveting |
| Nosotros / as | codiciábamos | We were coveting |
| Vosotros / as | codiciabais | You were coveting |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | codiciaban | They / you were coveting |
| Vos | codiciabas | You were coveting |
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 coveted” and “she has coveted”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he codiciado | I have coveted |
| Tú | has codiciado | You have coveted |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha codiciado | He has / she has / you have coveted |
| Nosotros / as | hemos codiciado | We have coveted |
| Vosotros / as | habéis codiciado | You have coveted |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han codiciado | They / you have coveted |
| Vos | has codiciado | You have coveted |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would covet” or “she would covet”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | codiciaría | I would covet |
| Tú | codiciarías | You would covet |
| Él / Ella / Usted | codiciaría | He / she / you would covet |
| Nosotros / as | codiciaríamos | We would covet |
| Vosotros / as | codiciaríais | You would covet |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | codiciarían | They / you would covet |
| Vos | codiciarías | You would covet |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will covet” or “they will covet”.
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 codiciar” means “They are going to covet”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | codiciaré | I will covet |
| Tú | codiciarás | You will covet |
| Él / Ella / Usted | codiciará | He / she / you will covet |
| Nosotros / as | codiciaremos | We will covet |
| Vosotros / as | codiciaréis | You will covet |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | codiciarán | They / you will covet |
| Vos | codiciarás | You will covet |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | codicie |
| Tú | codicies |
| Él / Ella / Usted | codicie |
| Nosotros / as | codiciemos |
| Vosotros / as | codiciéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | codicien |
| Vos | codicies |
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 | codiciara | codiciase |
| Tú | codiciaras | codiciase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | codiciara | codiciase |
| Nosotros / as | codiciáramos | codiciásemos |
| Vosotros / as | codiciarais | codiciaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | codiciaran | codiciasen |
| Vos | codiciaras | codiciase |
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 | codiciare |
| Tú | codiciares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | codiciare |
| Nosotros / as | codiciáremos |
| Vosotros / as | codiciareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | codiciaren |
| Vos | codiciares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “covet!” and “don’t covet!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | codicia | no codicies |
| Él / Ella / Usted | codicie | no codicie |
| Nosotros / as | codiciemos | no codiciemos |
| Vosotros / as | codiciad | no codiciéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | codicien | no codicien |
| Vos | codiciá | no codicies |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya codiciado |
| Tú | hayas codiciado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya codiciado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos codiciado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis codiciado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan codiciado |
| Vos | hayas codiciado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera codiciado / hubiese codiciado |
| Tú | hubieras codiciado / hubieses codiciado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera codiciado / hubiese codiciado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos codiciado / hubiésemos codiciado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais codiciado / hubieseis codiciado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran codiciado / hubiesen codiciado |
| Vos | hubieras codiciado / hubieses codiciado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere codiciado |
| Tú | hubieres codiciado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere codiciado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos codiciado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis codiciado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren codiciado |
| Vos | hubieres codiciado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté codiciando |
| Tú | estés codiciando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté codiciando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos codiciando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis codiciando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén codiciando |
| Vos | estés codiciando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera codiciando / estuviese codiciando |
| Tú | estuvieras codiciando / estuvieses codiciando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera codiciando / estuviese codiciando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos codiciando / estuviésamos codiciando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais codiciando / estuvieseis codiciando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera codiciando / estuviese codiciando |
| Vos | estuvieras codiciando / estuvieses codiciando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere codiciando |
| Tú | estuvieres codiciando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere codiciando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos codiciando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis codiciando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere codiciando |
| Vos | estuvieres codiciando |
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 codiciás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos codiciaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos codiciabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos codiciarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos codiciarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos codicies |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos codiciaras / Vos codiciase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos codiciá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no codicies |