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Enmascarar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to mask, hide, put on a mask”.
Below are all of the conjugations for enmascarar 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 mask, hide, put on a mask |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | enmascarar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está enmascarando) and past continuous (estaba enmascarando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. masking).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he enmascarado and hubiera enmascarado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have masked).
| Gerundio / Gerund | enmascarando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | enmascarado |
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 mask” or “they mask”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | enmascaro |
| Tú | enmascaras |
| Él / Ella / Usted | enmascara |
| Nosotros / as | enmascaramos |
| Vosotros / as | enmascaráis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | enmascaran |
| Vos | enmascarás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I masked” or “she masked” 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 | enmascaré | I masked |
| Tú | enmascaraste | You masked |
| Él / Ella / Usted | enmascaró | He / she / you masked |
| Nosotros / as | enmascaramos | We masked |
| Vosotros / as | enmascarasteis | You masked |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | enmascararon | They / you masked |
| Vos | enmascaraste | You masked |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was masking” or “she was masking” 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 | enmascaraba | I was masking |
| Tú | enmascarabas | You were masking |
| Él / Ella / Usted | enmascaraba | He was / she was / you were masking |
| Nosotros / as | enmascarábamos | We were masking |
| Vosotros / as | enmascarabais | You were masking |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | enmascaraban | They / you were masking |
| Vos | enmascarabas | You were masking |
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 masked” and “she has masked”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he enmascarado | I have masked |
| Tú | has enmascarado | You have masked |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha enmascarado | He has / she has / you have masked |
| Nosotros / as | hemos enmascarado | We have masked |
| Vosotros / as | habéis enmascarado | You have masked |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han enmascarado | They / you have masked |
| Vos | has enmascarado | You have masked |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would mask” or “she would mask”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | enmascararía | I would mask |
| Tú | enmascararías | You would mask |
| Él / Ella / Usted | enmascararía | He / she / you would mask |
| Nosotros / as | enmascararíamos | We would mask |
| Vosotros / as | enmascararíais | You would mask |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | enmascararían | They / you would mask |
| Vos | enmascararías | You would mask |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will mask” or “they will mask”.
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 enmascarar” means “They are going to mask”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | enmascararé | I will mask |
| Tú | enmascararás | You will mask |
| Él / Ella / Usted | enmascarará | He / she / you will mask |
| Nosotros / as | enmascararemos | We will mask |
| Vosotros / as | enmascararéis | You will mask |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | enmascararán | They / you will mask |
| Vos | enmascararás | You will mask |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | enmascare |
| Tú | enmascares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | enmascare |
| Nosotros / as | enmascaremos |
| Vosotros / as | enmascaréis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | enmascaren |
| Vos | enmascares |
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 | enmascarara | enmascarase |
| Tú | enmascararas | enmascarase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | enmascarara | enmascarase |
| Nosotros / as | enmascaráramos | enmascarásemos |
| Vosotros / as | enmascararais | enmascaraseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | enmascararan | enmascarasen |
| Vos | enmascararas | enmascarase |
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 | enmascarare |
| Tú | enmascarares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | enmascarare |
| Nosotros / as | enmascaráremos |
| Vosotros / as | enmascarareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | enmascararen |
| Vos | enmascarares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “mask!” and “don’t mask!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | enmascara | no enmascares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | enmascare | no enmascare |
| Nosotros / as | enmascaremos | no enmascaremos |
| Vosotros / as | enmascarad | no enmascaréis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | enmascaren | no enmascaren |
| Vos | enmascará | no enmascares |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya enmascarado |
| Tú | hayas enmascarado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya enmascarado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos enmascarado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis enmascarado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan enmascarado |
| Vos | hayas enmascarado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera enmascarado / hubiese enmascarado |
| Tú | hubieras enmascarado / hubieses enmascarado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera enmascarado / hubiese enmascarado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos enmascarado / hubiésemos enmascarado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais enmascarado / hubieseis enmascarado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran enmascarado / hubiesen enmascarado |
| Vos | hubieras enmascarado / hubieses enmascarado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere enmascarado |
| Tú | hubieres enmascarado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere enmascarado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos enmascarado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis enmascarado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren enmascarado |
| Vos | hubieres enmascarado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté enmascarando |
| Tú | estés enmascarando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté enmascarando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos enmascarando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis enmascarando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén enmascarando |
| Vos | estés enmascarando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera enmascarando / estuviese enmascarando |
| Tú | estuvieras enmascarando / estuvieses enmascarando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera enmascarando / estuviese enmascarando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos enmascarando / estuviésamos enmascarando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais enmascarando / estuvieseis enmascarando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera enmascarando / estuviese enmascarando |
| Vos | estuvieras enmascarando / estuvieses enmascarando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere enmascarando |
| Tú | estuvieres enmascarando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere enmascarando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos enmascarando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis enmascarando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere enmascarando |
| Vos | estuvieres enmascarando |
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 enmascarás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos enmascaraste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos enmascarabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos enmascararías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos enmascararás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos enmascares |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos enmascararas / Vos enmascarase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos enmascará |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no enmascares |