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Estrangular is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to strangle”.
Below are all of the conjugations for estrangular 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 strangle |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | estrangular |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está estrangulando) and past continuous (estaba estrangulando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. strangling).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he estrangulado and hubiera estrangulado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have strangled).
| Gerundio / Gerund | estrangulando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | estrangulado |
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 strangle” or “they strangle”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estrangulo |
| Tú | estrangulas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estrangula |
| Nosotros / as | estrangulamos |
| Vosotros / as | estranguláis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estrangulan |
| Vos | estrangulás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I strangled” or “she strangled” 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 | estrangulé | I strangled |
| Tú | estrangulaste | You strangled |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estranguló | He / she / you strangled |
| Nosotros / as | estrangulamos | We strangled |
| Vosotros / as | estrangulasteis | You strangled |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estrangularon | They / you strangled |
| Vos | estrangulaste | You strangled |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was strangling” or “she was strangling” 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 | estrangulaba | I was strangling |
| Tú | estrangulabas | You were strangling |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estrangulaba | He was / she was / you were strangling |
| Nosotros / as | estrangulábamos | We were strangling |
| Vosotros / as | estrangulabais | You were strangling |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estrangulaban | They / you were strangling |
| Vos | estrangulabas | You were strangling |
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 strangled” and “she has strangled”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he estrangulado | I have strangled |
| Tú | has estrangulado | You have strangled |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha estrangulado | He has / she has / you have strangled |
| Nosotros / as | hemos estrangulado | We have strangled |
| Vosotros / as | habéis estrangulado | You have strangled |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han estrangulado | They / you have strangled |
| Vos | has estrangulado | You have strangled |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would strangle” or “she would strangle”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | estrangularía | I would strangle |
| Tú | estrangularías | You would strangle |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estrangularía | He / she / you would strangle |
| Nosotros / as | estrangularíamos | We would strangle |
| Vosotros / as | estrangularíais | You would strangle |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estrangularían | They / you would strangle |
| Vos | estrangularías | You would strangle |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will strangle” or “they will strangle”.
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 estrangular” means “They are going to strangle”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | estrangularé | I will strangle |
| Tú | estrangularás | You will strangle |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estrangulará | He / she / you will strangle |
| Nosotros / as | estrangularemos | We will strangle |
| Vosotros / as | estrangularéis | You will strangle |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estrangularán | They / you will strangle |
| Vos | estrangularás | You will strangle |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estrangule |
| Tú | estrangules |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estrangule |
| Nosotros / as | estrangulemos |
| Vosotros / as | estranguléis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estrangulen |
| Vos | estrangules |
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 | estrangulara | estrangulase |
| Tú | estrangularas | estrangulase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estrangulara | estrangulase |
| Nosotros / as | estranguláramos | estrangulásemos |
| Vosotros / as | estrangularais | estrangulaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estrangularan | estrangulasen |
| Vos | estrangularas | estrangulase |
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 | estrangulare |
| Tú | estrangulares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estrangulare |
| Nosotros / as | estranguláremos |
| Vosotros / as | estrangulareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estrangularen |
| Vos | estrangulares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “strangle!” and “don’t strangle!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | estrangula | no estrangules |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estrangule | no estrangule |
| Nosotros / as | estrangulemos | no estrangulemos |
| Vosotros / as | estrangulad | no estranguléis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estrangulen | no estrangulen |
| Vos | estrangulá | no estrangules |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya estrangulado |
| Tú | hayas estrangulado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya estrangulado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos estrangulado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis estrangulado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan estrangulado |
| Vos | hayas estrangulado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera estrangulado / hubiese estrangulado |
| Tú | hubieras estrangulado / hubieses estrangulado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera estrangulado / hubiese estrangulado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos estrangulado / hubiésemos estrangulado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais estrangulado / hubieseis estrangulado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran estrangulado / hubiesen estrangulado |
| Vos | hubieras estrangulado / hubieses estrangulado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere estrangulado |
| Tú | hubieres estrangulado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere estrangulado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos estrangulado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis estrangulado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren estrangulado |
| Vos | hubieres estrangulado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté estrangulando |
| Tú | estés estrangulando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté estrangulando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos estrangulando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis estrangulando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén estrangulando |
| Vos | estés estrangulando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera estrangulando / estuviese estrangulando |
| Tú | estuvieras estrangulando / estuvieses estrangulando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera estrangulando / estuviese estrangulando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos estrangulando / estuviésamos estrangulando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais estrangulando / estuvieseis estrangulando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera estrangulando / estuviese estrangulando |
| Vos | estuvieras estrangulando / estuvieses estrangulando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere estrangulando |
| Tú | estuvieres estrangulando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere estrangulando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos estrangulando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis estrangulando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere estrangulando |
| Vos | estuvieres estrangulando |
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 estrangulás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos estrangulaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos estrangulabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos estrangularías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos estrangularás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos estrangules |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos estrangularas / Vos estrangulase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos estrangulá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no estrangules |