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Encomendar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to trust”.
Below are all of the conjugations for encomendar 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 trust |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | encomendar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está encomendando) and past continuous (estaba encomendando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. trusting).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he encomendado and hubiera encomendado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have trusted).
| Gerundio / Gerund | encomendando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | encomendado |
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 trust” or “they trust”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | encomiendo |
| Tú | encomiendas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | encomienda |
| Nosotros / as | encomendamos |
| Vosotros / as | encomendáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | encomiendan |
| Vos | encomendás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I trusted” or “she trusted” 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 | encomendé | I trusted |
| Tú | encomendaste | You trusted |
| Él / Ella / Usted | encomendó | He / she / you trusted |
| Nosotros / as | encomendamos | We trusted |
| Vosotros / as | encomendasteis | You trusted |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | encomendaron | They / you trusted |
| Vos | encomendaste | You trusted |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was trusting” or “she was trusting” 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 | encomendaba | I was trusting |
| Tú | encomendabas | You were trusting |
| Él / Ella / Usted | encomendaba | He was / she was / you were trusting |
| Nosotros / as | encomendábamos | We were trusting |
| Vosotros / as | encomendabais | You were trusting |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | encomendaban | They / you were trusting |
| Vos | encomendabas | You were trusting |
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 trusted” and “she has trusted”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he encomendado | I have trusted |
| Tú | has encomendado | You have trusted |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha encomendado | He has / she has / you have trusted |
| Nosotros / as | hemos encomendado | We have trusted |
| Vosotros / as | habéis encomendado | You have trusted |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han encomendado | They / you have trusted |
| Vos | has encomendado | You have trusted |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would trust” or “she would trust”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | encomendaría | I would trust |
| Tú | encomendarías | You would trust |
| Él / Ella / Usted | encomendaría | He / she / you would trust |
| Nosotros / as | encomendaríamos | We would trust |
| Vosotros / as | encomendaríais | You would trust |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | encomendarían | They / you would trust |
| Vos | encomendarías | You would trust |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will trust” or “they will trust”.
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 encomendar” means “They are going to trust”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | encomendaré | I will trust |
| Tú | encomendarás | You will trust |
| Él / Ella / Usted | encomendará | He / she / you will trust |
| Nosotros / as | encomendaremos | We will trust |
| Vosotros / as | encomendaréis | You will trust |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | encomendarán | They / you will trust |
| Vos | encomendarás | You will trust |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | encomiende |
| Tú | encomiendes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | encomiende |
| Nosotros / as | encomendemos |
| Vosotros / as | encomendéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | encomienden |
| Vos | encomiendes |
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 | encomendara | encomendase |
| Tú | encomendaras | encomendase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | encomendara | encomendase |
| Nosotros / as | encomendáramos | encomendásemos |
| Vosotros / as | encomendarais | encomendaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | encomendaran | encomendasen |
| Vos | encomendaras | encomendase |
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 | encomendare |
| Tú | encomendares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | encomendare |
| Nosotros / as | encomendáremos |
| Vosotros / as | encomendareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | encomendaren |
| Vos | encomendares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “trust!” and “don’t trust!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | encomienda | no encomiendes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | encomiende | no encomiende |
| Nosotros / as | encomendemos | no encomendemos |
| Vosotros / as | encomendad | no encomendéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | encomienden | no encomienden |
| Vos | encomendá | no encomiendes |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya encomendado |
| Tú | hayas encomendado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya encomendado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos encomendado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis encomendado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan encomendado |
| Vos | hayas encomendado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera encomendado / hubiese encomendado |
| Tú | hubieras encomendado / hubieses encomendado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera encomendado / hubiese encomendado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos encomendado / hubiésemos encomendado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais encomendado / hubieseis encomendado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran encomendado / hubiesen encomendado |
| Vos | hubieras encomendado / hubieses encomendado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere encomendado |
| Tú | hubieres encomendado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere encomendado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos encomendado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis encomendado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren encomendado |
| Vos | hubieres encomendado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté encomendando |
| Tú | estés encomendando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté encomendando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos encomendando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis encomendando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén encomendando |
| Vos | estés encomendando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera encomendando / estuviese encomendando |
| Tú | estuvieras encomendando / estuvieses encomendando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera encomendando / estuviese encomendando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos encomendando / estuviésamos encomendando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais encomendando / estuvieseis encomendando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera encomendando / estuviese encomendando |
| Vos | estuvieras encomendando / estuvieses encomendando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere encomendando |
| Tú | estuvieres encomendando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere encomendando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos encomendando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis encomendando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere encomendando |
| Vos | estuvieres encomendando |
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 encomendás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos encomendaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos encomendabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos encomendarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos encomendarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos encomiendes |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos encomendaras / Vos encomendase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos encomendá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no encomiendes |