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Festejar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to feast, celebrate”.
Below are all of the conjugations for festejar 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 feast, celebrate |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | festejar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está festejando) and past continuous (estaba festejando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. feasted).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he feasted and hubiera feasted. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have feasting).
| Gerundio / Gerund | festejando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | feasted |
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 feast” or “they feast”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | festejo |
| Tú | festejas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | festeja |
| Nosotros / as | festejamos |
| Vosotros / as | festejáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | festejan |
| Vos | festejás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I feast” or “she feast” 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 | festejé | I feast |
| Tú | festejaste | You feast |
| Él / Ella / Usted | festejó | He / she / you feast |
| Nosotros / as | festejamos | We feast |
| Vosotros / as | festejasteis | You feast |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | festejaron | They / you feast |
| Vos | festejaste | You feast |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was feasted” or “she was feasted” 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 | festejaba | I was feasted |
| Tú | festejabas | You were feasted |
| Él / Ella / Usted | festejaba | He was / she was / you were feasted |
| Nosotros / as | festejábamos | We were feasted |
| Vosotros / as | festejabais | You were feasted |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | festejaban | They / you were feasted |
| Vos | festejabas | You were feasted |
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 feasting” and “she has feasting”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he feasted | I have feasting |
| Tú | has feasted | You have feasting |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha feasted | He has / she has / you have feasting |
| Nosotros / as | hemos feasted | We have feasting |
| Vosotros / as | habéis feasted | You have feasting |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han feasted | They / you have feasting |
| Vos | has feasted | You have feasting |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would feast” or “she would feast”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | festejaría | I would feast |
| Tú | festejarías | You would feast |
| Él / Ella / Usted | festejaría | He / she / you would feast |
| Nosotros / as | festejaríamos | We would feast |
| Vosotros / as | festejaríais | You would feast |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | festejarían | They / you would feast |
| Vos | festejarías | You would feast |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will feast” or “they will feast”.
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 festejar” means “They are going to feast”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | festejaré | I will feast |
| Tú | festejarás | You will feast |
| Él / Ella / Usted | festejará | He / she / you will feast |
| Nosotros / as | festejaremos | We will feast |
| Vosotros / as | festejaréis | You will feast |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | festejarán | They / you will feast |
| Vos | festejarás | You will feast |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | festeje |
| Tú | festejes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | festeje |
| Nosotros / as | festejemos |
| Vosotros / as | festejéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | festejen |
| Vos | festejes |
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 | festejara | festejase |
| Tú | festejaras | festejase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | festejara | festejase |
| Nosotros / as | festejáramos | festejásemos |
| Vosotros / as | festejarais | festejaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | festejaran | festejasen |
| Vos | festejaras | festejase |
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 | festejare |
| Tú | festejares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | festejare |
| Nosotros / as | festejáremos |
| Vosotros / as | festejareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | festejaren |
| Vos | festejares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “feast!” and “don’t feast!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | festeja | no festejes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | festeje | no festeje |
| Nosotros / as | festejemos | no festejemos |
| Vosotros / as | festejad | no festejéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | festejen | no festejen |
| Vos | festejá | no festejes |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya feasted |
| Tú | hayas feasted |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya feasted |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos feasted |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis feasted |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan feasted |
| Vos | hayas feasted |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera feasted / hubiese feasted |
| Tú | hubieras feasted / hubieses feasted |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera feasted / hubiese feasted |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos feasted / hubiésemos feasted |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais feasted / hubieseis feasted |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran feasted / hubiesen feasted |
| Vos | hubieras feasted / hubieses feasted |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere feasted |
| Tú | hubieres feasted |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere feasted |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos feasted |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis feasted |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren feasted |
| Vos | hubieres feasted |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté festejando |
| Tú | estés festejando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté festejando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos festejando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis festejando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén festejando |
| Vos | estés festejando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera festejando / estuviese festejando |
| Tú | estuvieras festejando / estuvieses festejando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera festejando / estuviese festejando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos festejando / estuviésamos festejando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais festejando / estuvieseis festejando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera festejando / estuviese festejando |
| Vos | estuvieras festejando / estuvieses festejando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere festejando |
| Tú | estuvieres festejando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere festejando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos festejando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis festejando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere festejando |
| Vos | estuvieres festejando |
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 festejás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos festejaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos festejabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos festejarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos festejarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos festejes |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos festejaras / Vos festejase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos festejá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no festejes |