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Deshidratar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to dehydrate”.
Below are all of the conjugations for deshidratar 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 dehydrate |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | deshidratar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está deshidratando) and past continuous (estaba deshidratando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. dehydrating).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he deshidratado and hubiera deshidratado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have dehydrated).
| Gerundio / Gerund | deshidratando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | deshidratado |
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 dehydrate” or “they dehydrate”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | deshidrato |
| Tú | deshidratas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | deshidrata |
| Nosotros / as | deshidratamos |
| Vosotros / as | deshidratáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | deshidratan |
| Vos | deshidratás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I dehydrated” or “she dehydrated” 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 | deshidraté | I dehydrated |
| Tú | deshidrataste | You dehydrated |
| Él / Ella / Usted | deshidrató | He / she / you dehydrated |
| Nosotros / as | deshidratamos | We dehydrated |
| Vosotros / as | deshidratasteis | You dehydrated |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | deshidrataron | They / you dehydrated |
| Vos | deshidrataste | You dehydrated |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was dehydrating” or “she was dehydrating” 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 | deshidrataba | I was dehydrating |
| Tú | deshidratabas | You were dehydrating |
| Él / Ella / Usted | deshidrataba | He was / she was / you were dehydrating |
| Nosotros / as | deshidratábamos | We were dehydrating |
| Vosotros / as | deshidratabais | You were dehydrating |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | deshidrataban | They / you were dehydrating |
| Vos | deshidratabas | You were dehydrating |
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 dehydrated” and “she has dehydrated”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he deshidratado | I have dehydrated |
| Tú | has deshidratado | You have dehydrated |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha deshidratado | He has / she has / you have dehydrated |
| Nosotros / as | hemos deshidratado | We have dehydrated |
| Vosotros / as | habéis deshidratado | You have dehydrated |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han deshidratado | They / you have dehydrated |
| Vos | has deshidratado | You have dehydrated |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would dehydrate” or “she would dehydrate”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | deshidrataría | I would dehydrate |
| Tú | deshidratarías | You would dehydrate |
| Él / Ella / Usted | deshidrataría | He / she / you would dehydrate |
| Nosotros / as | deshidrataríamos | We would dehydrate |
| Vosotros / as | deshidrataríais | You would dehydrate |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | deshidratarían | They / you would dehydrate |
| Vos | deshidratarías | You would dehydrate |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will dehydrate” or “they will dehydrate”.
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 deshidratar” means “They are going to dehydrate”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | deshidrataré | I will dehydrate |
| Tú | deshidratarás | You will dehydrate |
| Él / Ella / Usted | deshidratará | He / she / you will dehydrate |
| Nosotros / as | deshidrataremos | We will dehydrate |
| Vosotros / as | deshidrataréis | You will dehydrate |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | deshidratarán | They / you will dehydrate |
| Vos | deshidratarás | You will dehydrate |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | deshidrate |
| Tú | deshidrates |
| Él / Ella / Usted | deshidrate |
| Nosotros / as | deshidratemos |
| Vosotros / as | deshidratéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | deshidraten |
| Vos | deshidrates |
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 | deshidratara | deshidratase |
| Tú | deshidrataras | deshidratase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | deshidratara | deshidratase |
| Nosotros / as | deshidratáramos | deshidratásemos |
| Vosotros / as | deshidratarais | deshidrataseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | deshidrataran | deshidratasen |
| Vos | deshidrataras | deshidratase |
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 | deshidratare |
| Tú | deshidratares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | deshidratare |
| Nosotros / as | deshidratáremos |
| Vosotros / as | deshidratareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | deshidrataren |
| Vos | deshidratares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “dehydrate!” and “don’t dehydrate!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | deshidrata | no deshidrates |
| Él / Ella / Usted | deshidrate | no deshidrate |
| Nosotros / as | deshidratemos | no deshidratemos |
| Vosotros / as | deshidratad | no deshidratéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | deshidraten | no deshidraten |
| Vos | deshidratá | no deshidrates |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya deshidratado |
| Tú | hayas deshidratado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya deshidratado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos deshidratado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis deshidratado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan deshidratado |
| Vos | hayas deshidratado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera deshidratado / hubiese deshidratado |
| Tú | hubieras deshidratado / hubieses deshidratado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera deshidratado / hubiese deshidratado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos deshidratado / hubiésemos deshidratado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais deshidratado / hubieseis deshidratado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran deshidratado / hubiesen deshidratado |
| Vos | hubieras deshidratado / hubieses deshidratado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere deshidratado |
| Tú | hubieres deshidratado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere deshidratado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos deshidratado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis deshidratado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren deshidratado |
| Vos | hubieres deshidratado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté deshidratando |
| Tú | estés deshidratando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté deshidratando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos deshidratando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis deshidratando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén deshidratando |
| Vos | estés deshidratando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera deshidratando / estuviese deshidratando |
| Tú | estuvieras deshidratando / estuvieses deshidratando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera deshidratando / estuviese deshidratando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos deshidratando / estuviésamos deshidratando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais deshidratando / estuvieseis deshidratando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera deshidratando / estuviese deshidratando |
| Vos | estuvieras deshidratando / estuvieses deshidratando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere deshidratando |
| Tú | estuvieres deshidratando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere deshidratando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos deshidratando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis deshidratando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere deshidratando |
| Vos | estuvieres deshidratando |
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 deshidratás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos deshidrataste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos deshidratabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos deshidratarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos deshidratarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos deshidrates |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos deshidrataras / Vos deshidratase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos deshidratá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no deshidrates |