Everything you need to improve your Spanish
Menu
Everything you need to improve your Spanish
Desenredar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to disentangle, unravel”.
Below are all of the conjugations for desenredar 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 disentangle, unravel |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | desenredar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está desenredando) and past continuous (estaba desenredando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. disentangling).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he desenredado and hubiera desenredado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have disentangled).
| Gerundio / Gerund | desenredando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | desenredado |
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 disentangle” or “they disentangle”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | desenredo |
| Tú | desenredas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desenreda |
| Nosotros / as | desenredamos |
| Vosotros / as | desenredáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desenredan |
| Vos | desenredás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I disentangled” or “she disentangled” 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 | desenredé | I disentangled |
| Tú | desenredaste | You disentangled |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desenredó | He / she / you disentangled |
| Nosotros / as | desenredamos | We disentangled |
| Vosotros / as | desenredasteis | You disentangled |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desenredaron | They / you disentangled |
| Vos | desenredaste | You disentangled |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was disentangling” or “she was disentangling” 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 | desenredaba | I was disentangling |
| Tú | desenredabas | You were disentangling |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desenredaba | He was / she was / you were disentangling |
| Nosotros / as | desenredábamos | We were disentangling |
| Vosotros / as | desenredabais | You were disentangling |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desenredaban | They / you were disentangling |
| Vos | desenredabas | You were disentangling |
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 disentangled” and “she has disentangled”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he desenredado | I have disentangled |
| Tú | has desenredado | You have disentangled |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha desenredado | He has / she has / you have disentangled |
| Nosotros / as | hemos desenredado | We have disentangled |
| Vosotros / as | habéis desenredado | You have disentangled |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han desenredado | They / you have disentangled |
| Vos | has desenredado | You have disentangled |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would disentangle” or “she would disentangle”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | desenredaría | I would disentangle |
| Tú | desenredarías | You would disentangle |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desenredaría | He / she / you would disentangle |
| Nosotros / as | desenredaríamos | We would disentangle |
| Vosotros / as | desenredaríais | You would disentangle |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desenredarían | They / you would disentangle |
| Vos | desenredarías | You would disentangle |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will disentangle” or “they will disentangle”.
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 desenredar” means “They are going to disentangle”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | desenredaré | I will disentangle |
| Tú | desenredarás | You will disentangle |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desenredará | He / she / you will disentangle |
| Nosotros / as | desenredaremos | We will disentangle |
| Vosotros / as | desenredaréis | You will disentangle |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desenredarán | They / you will disentangle |
| Vos | desenredarás | You will disentangle |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | desenrede |
| Tú | desenredes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desenrede |
| Nosotros / as | desenredemos |
| Vosotros / as | desenredéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desenreden |
| Vos | desenredes |
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 | desenredara | desenredase |
| Tú | desenredaras | desenredase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desenredara | desenredase |
| Nosotros / as | desenredáramos | desenredásemos |
| Vosotros / as | desenredarais | desenredaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desenredaran | desenredasen |
| Vos | desenredaras | desenredase |
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 | desenredare |
| Tú | desenredares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desenredare |
| Nosotros / as | desenredáremos |
| Vosotros / as | desenredareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desenredaren |
| Vos | desenredares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “disentangle!” and “don’t disentangle!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | desenreda | no desenredes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desenrede | no desenrede |
| Nosotros / as | desenredemos | no desenredemos |
| Vosotros / as | desenredad | no desenredéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desenreden | no desenreden |
| Vos | desenredá | no desenredes |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya desenredado |
| Tú | hayas desenredado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya desenredado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos desenredado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis desenredado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan desenredado |
| Vos | hayas desenredado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera desenredado / hubiese desenredado |
| Tú | hubieras desenredado / hubieses desenredado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera desenredado / hubiese desenredado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos desenredado / hubiésemos desenredado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais desenredado / hubieseis desenredado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran desenredado / hubiesen desenredado |
| Vos | hubieras desenredado / hubieses desenredado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere desenredado |
| Tú | hubieres desenredado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere desenredado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos desenredado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis desenredado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren desenredado |
| Vos | hubieres desenredado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté desenredando |
| Tú | estés desenredando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté desenredando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos desenredando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis desenredando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén desenredando |
| Vos | estés desenredando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera desenredando / estuviese desenredando |
| Tú | estuvieras desenredando / estuvieses desenredando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera desenredando / estuviese desenredando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos desenredando / estuviésamos desenredando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais desenredando / estuvieseis desenredando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera desenredando / estuviese desenredando |
| Vos | estuvieras desenredando / estuvieses desenredando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere desenredando |
| Tú | estuvieres desenredando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere desenredando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos desenredando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis desenredando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere desenredando |
| Vos | estuvieres desenredando |
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 desenredás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos desenredaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos desenredabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos desenredarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos desenredarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos desenredes |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos desenredaras / Vos desenredase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos desenredá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no desenredes |