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Enterrar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to bury, to inter”.
Below are all of the conjugations for enterrar 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 bury, to inter |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | enterrar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está enterrando) and past continuous (estaba enterrando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. burying).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he enterrado and hubiera enterrado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have buried).
| Gerundio / Gerund | enterrando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | enterrado |
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 bury” or “they bury”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | entierro |
| Tú | entierras |
| Él / Ella / Usted | entierra |
| Nosotros / as | enterramos |
| Vosotros / as | enterráis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | entierran |
| Vos | enterrás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I buried” or “she buried” 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 | enterré | I buried |
| Tú | enterraste | You buried |
| Él / Ella / Usted | enterró | He / she / you buried |
| Nosotros / as | enterramos | We buried |
| Vosotros / as | enterrasteis | You buried |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | enterraron | They / you buried |
| Vos | enterraste | You buried |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was burying” or “she was burying” 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 | enterraba | I was burying |
| Tú | enterrabas | You were burying |
| Él / Ella / Usted | enterraba | He was / she was / you were burying |
| Nosotros / as | enterrábamos | We were burying |
| Vosotros / as | enterrabais | You were burying |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | enterraban | They / you were burying |
| Vos | enterrabas | You were burying |
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 buried” and “she has buried”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he enterrado | I have buried |
| Tú | has enterrado | You have buried |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha enterrado | He has / she has / you have buried |
| Nosotros / as | hemos enterrado | We have buried |
| Vosotros / as | habéis enterrado | You have buried |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han enterrado | They / you have buried |
| Vos | has enterrado | You have buried |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would bury” or “she would bury”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | enterraría | I would bury |
| Tú | enterrarías | You would bury |
| Él / Ella / Usted | enterraría | He / she / you would bury |
| Nosotros / as | enterraríamos | We would bury |
| Vosotros / as | enterraríais | You would bury |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | enterrarían | They / you would bury |
| Vos | enterrarías | You would bury |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will bury” or “they will bury”.
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 enterrar” means “They are going to bury”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | enterraré | I will bury |
| Tú | enterrarás | You will bury |
| Él / Ella / Usted | enterrará | He / she / you will bury |
| Nosotros / as | enterraremos | We will bury |
| Vosotros / as | enterraréis | You will bury |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | enterrarán | They / you will bury |
| Vos | enterrarás | You will bury |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | entierre |
| Tú | entierres |
| Él / Ella / Usted | entierre |
| Nosotros / as | enterremos |
| Vosotros / as | enterréis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | entierren |
| Vos | entierres |
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 | enterrara | enterrase |
| Tú | enterraras | enterrase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | enterrara | enterrase |
| Nosotros / as | enterráramos | enterrásemos |
| Vosotros / as | enterrarais | enterraseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | enterraran | enterrasen |
| Vos | enterraras | enterrase |
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 | enterrare |
| Tú | enterrares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | enterrare |
| Nosotros / as | enterráremos |
| Vosotros / as | enterrareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | enterraren |
| Vos | enterrares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “bury!” and “don’t bury!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | entierra | no entierres |
| Él / Ella / Usted | entierre | no entierre |
| Nosotros / as | enterremos | no enterremos |
| Vosotros / as | enterrad | no enterréis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | entierren | no entierren |
| Vos | enterrá | no entierres |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya enterrado |
| Tú | hayas enterrado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya enterrado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos enterrado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis enterrado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan enterrado |
| Vos | hayas enterrado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera enterrado / hubiese enterrado |
| Tú | hubieras enterrado / hubieses enterrado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera enterrado / hubiese enterrado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos enterrado / hubiésemos enterrado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais enterrado / hubieseis enterrado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran enterrado / hubiesen enterrado |
| Vos | hubieras enterrado / hubieses enterrado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere enterrado |
| Tú | hubieres enterrado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere enterrado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos enterrado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis enterrado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren enterrado |
| Vos | hubieres enterrado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté enterrando |
| Tú | estés enterrando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté enterrando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos enterrando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis enterrando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén enterrando |
| Vos | estés enterrando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera enterrando / estuviese enterrando |
| Tú | estuvieras enterrando / estuvieses enterrando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera enterrando / estuviese enterrando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos enterrando / estuviésamos enterrando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais enterrando / estuvieseis enterrando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera enterrando / estuviese enterrando |
| Vos | estuvieras enterrando / estuvieses enterrando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere enterrando |
| Tú | estuvieres enterrando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere enterrando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos enterrando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis enterrando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere enterrando |
| Vos | estuvieres enterrando |
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 enterrás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos enterraste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos enterrabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos enterrarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos enterrarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos entierres |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos enterraras / Vos enterrase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos enterrá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no entierres |