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Desintegrar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to disintegrate, decompose”.
Below are all of the conjugations for desintegrar 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 disintegrate, decompose |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | desintegrar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está desintegrando) and past continuous (estaba desintegrando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. disintegrating).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he desintegrado and hubiera desintegrado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have disintegrated).
| Gerundio / Gerund | desintegrando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | desintegrado |
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 disintegrate” or “they disintegrate”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | desintegro |
| Tú | desintegras |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desintegra |
| Nosotros / as | desintegramos |
| Vosotros / as | desintegráis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desintegran |
| Vos | desintegrás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I disintegrated” or “she disintegrated” 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 | desintegré | I disintegrated |
| Tú | desintegraste | You disintegrated |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desintegró | He / she / you disintegrated |
| Nosotros / as | desintegramos | We disintegrated |
| Vosotros / as | desintegrasteis | You disintegrated |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desintegraron | They / you disintegrated |
| Vos | desintegraste | You disintegrated |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was disintegrating” or “she was disintegrating” 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 | desintegraba | I was disintegrating |
| Tú | desintegrabas | You were disintegrating |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desintegraba | He was / she was / you were disintegrating |
| Nosotros / as | desintegrábamos | We were disintegrating |
| Vosotros / as | desintegrabais | You were disintegrating |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desintegraban | They / you were disintegrating |
| Vos | desintegrabas | You were disintegrating |
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 disintegrated” and “she has disintegrated”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he desintegrado | I have disintegrated |
| Tú | has desintegrado | You have disintegrated |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha desintegrado | He has / she has / you have disintegrated |
| Nosotros / as | hemos desintegrado | We have disintegrated |
| Vosotros / as | habéis desintegrado | You have disintegrated |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han desintegrado | They / you have disintegrated |
| Vos | has desintegrado | You have disintegrated |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would disintegrate” or “she would disintegrate”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | desintegraría | I would disintegrate |
| Tú | desintegrarías | You would disintegrate |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desintegraría | He / she / you would disintegrate |
| Nosotros / as | desintegraríamos | We would disintegrate |
| Vosotros / as | desintegraríais | You would disintegrate |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desintegrarían | They / you would disintegrate |
| Vos | desintegrarías | You would disintegrate |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will disintegrate” or “they will disintegrate”.
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 desintegrar” means “They are going to disintegrate”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | desintegraré | I will disintegrate |
| Tú | desintegrarás | You will disintegrate |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desintegrará | He / she / you will disintegrate |
| Nosotros / as | desintegraremos | We will disintegrate |
| Vosotros / as | desintegraréis | You will disintegrate |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desintegrarán | They / you will disintegrate |
| Vos | desintegrarás | You will disintegrate |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | desintegre |
| Tú | desintegres |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desintegre |
| Nosotros / as | desintegremos |
| Vosotros / as | desintegréis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desintegren |
| Vos | desintegres |
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 | desintegrara | desintegrase |
| Tú | desintegraras | desintegrase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desintegrara | desintegrase |
| Nosotros / as | desintegráramos | desintegrásemos |
| Vosotros / as | desintegrarais | desintegraseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desintegraran | desintegrasen |
| Vos | desintegraras | desintegrase |
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 | desintegrare |
| Tú | desintegrares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desintegrare |
| Nosotros / as | desintegráremos |
| Vosotros / as | desintegrareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desintegraren |
| Vos | desintegrares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “disintegrate!” and “don’t disintegrate!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | desintegra | no desintegres |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desintegre | no desintegre |
| Nosotros / as | desintegremos | no desintegremos |
| Vosotros / as | desintegrad | no desintegréis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desintegren | no desintegren |
| Vos | desintegrá | no desintegres |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya desintegrado |
| Tú | hayas desintegrado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya desintegrado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos desintegrado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis desintegrado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan desintegrado |
| Vos | hayas desintegrado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera desintegrado / hubiese desintegrado |
| Tú | hubieras desintegrado / hubieses desintegrado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera desintegrado / hubiese desintegrado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos desintegrado / hubiésemos desintegrado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais desintegrado / hubieseis desintegrado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran desintegrado / hubiesen desintegrado |
| Vos | hubieras desintegrado / hubieses desintegrado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere desintegrado |
| Tú | hubieres desintegrado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere desintegrado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos desintegrado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis desintegrado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren desintegrado |
| Vos | hubieres desintegrado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté desintegrando |
| Tú | estés desintegrando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté desintegrando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos desintegrando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis desintegrando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén desintegrando |
| Vos | estés desintegrando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera desintegrando / estuviese desintegrando |
| Tú | estuvieras desintegrando / estuvieses desintegrando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera desintegrando / estuviese desintegrando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos desintegrando / estuviésamos desintegrando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais desintegrando / estuvieseis desintegrando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera desintegrando / estuviese desintegrando |
| Vos | estuvieras desintegrando / estuvieses desintegrando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere desintegrando |
| Tú | estuvieres desintegrando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere desintegrando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos desintegrando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis desintegrando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere desintegrando |
| Vos | estuvieres desintegrando |
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 desintegrás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos desintegraste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos desintegrabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos desintegrarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos desintegrarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos desintegres |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos desintegraras / Vos desintegrase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos desintegrá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no desintegres |