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Confortar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to comfort, console, cheer”.
Below are all of the conjugations for confortar 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 comfort, console, cheer |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | confortar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está confortando) and past continuous (estaba confortando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. comforting).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he confortado and hubiera confortado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have comforted).
| Gerundio / Gerund | confortando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | confortado |
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 comfort” or “they comfort”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | conforto |
| Tú | confortas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | conforta |
| Nosotros / as | confortamos |
| Vosotros / as | confortáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | confortan |
| Vos | confortás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I comforted” or “she comforted” 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 | conforté | I comforted |
| Tú | confortaste | You comforted |
| Él / Ella / Usted | confortó | He / she / you comforted |
| Nosotros / as | confortamos | We comforted |
| Vosotros / as | confortasteis | You comforted |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | confortaron | They / you comforted |
| Vos | confortaste | You comforted |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was comforting” or “she was comforting” 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 | confortaba | I was comforting |
| Tú | confortabas | You were comforting |
| Él / Ella / Usted | confortaba | He was / she was / you were comforting |
| Nosotros / as | confortábamos | We were comforting |
| Vosotros / as | confortabais | You were comforting |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | confortaban | They / you were comforting |
| Vos | confortabas | You were comforting |
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 comforted” and “she has comforted”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he confortado | I have comforted |
| Tú | has confortado | You have comforted |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha confortado | He has / she has / you have comforted |
| Nosotros / as | hemos confortado | We have comforted |
| Vosotros / as | habéis confortado | You have comforted |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han confortado | They / you have comforted |
| Vos | has confortado | You have comforted |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would comfort” or “she would comfort”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | confortaría | I would comfort |
| Tú | confortarías | You would comfort |
| Él / Ella / Usted | confortaría | He / she / you would comfort |
| Nosotros / as | confortaríamos | We would comfort |
| Vosotros / as | confortaríais | You would comfort |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | confortarían | They / you would comfort |
| Vos | confortarías | You would comfort |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will comfort” or “they will comfort”.
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 confortar” means “They are going to comfort”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | confortaré | I will comfort |
| Tú | confortarás | You will comfort |
| Él / Ella / Usted | confortará | He / she / you will comfort |
| Nosotros / as | confortaremos | We will comfort |
| Vosotros / as | confortaréis | You will comfort |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | confortarán | They / you will comfort |
| Vos | confortarás | You will comfort |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | conforte |
| Tú | confortes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | conforte |
| Nosotros / as | confortemos |
| Vosotros / as | confortéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | conforten |
| Vos | confortes |
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 | confortara | confortase |
| Tú | confortaras | confortase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | confortara | confortase |
| Nosotros / as | confortáramos | confortásemos |
| Vosotros / as | confortarais | confortaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | confortaran | confortasen |
| Vos | confortaras | confortase |
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 | confortare |
| Tú | confortares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | confortare |
| Nosotros / as | confortáremos |
| Vosotros / as | confortareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | confortaren |
| Vos | confortares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “comfort!” and “don’t comfort!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | conforta | no confortes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | conforte | no conforte |
| Nosotros / as | confortemos | no confortemos |
| Vosotros / as | confortad | no confortéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | conforten | no conforten |
| Vos | confortá | no confortes |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya confortado |
| Tú | hayas confortado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya confortado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos confortado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis confortado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan confortado |
| Vos | hayas confortado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera confortado / hubiese confortado |
| Tú | hubieras confortado / hubieses confortado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera confortado / hubiese confortado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos confortado / hubiésemos confortado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais confortado / hubieseis confortado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran confortado / hubiesen confortado |
| Vos | hubieras confortado / hubieses confortado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere confortado |
| Tú | hubieres confortado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere confortado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos confortado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis confortado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren confortado |
| Vos | hubieres confortado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté confortando |
| Tú | estés confortando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté confortando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos confortando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis confortando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén confortando |
| Vos | estés confortando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera confortando / estuviese confortando |
| Tú | estuvieras confortando / estuvieses confortando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera confortando / estuviese confortando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos confortando / estuviésamos confortando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais confortando / estuvieseis confortando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera confortando / estuviese confortando |
| Vos | estuvieras confortando / estuvieses confortando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere confortando |
| Tú | estuvieres confortando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere confortando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos confortando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis confortando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere confortando |
| Vos | estuvieres confortando |
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 confortás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos confortaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos confortabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos confortarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos confortarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos confortes |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos confortaras / Vos confortase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos confortá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no confortes |