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Frecuentar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to attend regularly, go regularly to”.
Below are all of the conjugations for frecuentar 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 attend regularly, go regularly to |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | frecuentar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está frecuentando) and past continuous (estaba frecuentando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. attended regularly).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he attended regularly and hubiera attended regularly. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have attending regularly).
| Gerundio / Gerund | frecuentando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | attended regularly |
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 attend regularly” or “they attend regularly”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | frecuento |
| Tú | frecuentas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | frecuenta |
| Nosotros / as | frecuentamos |
| Vosotros / as | frecuentáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | frecuentan |
| Vos | frecuentás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I attend regularly” or “she attend regularly” 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 | frecuenté | I attend regularly |
| Tú | frecuentaste | You attend regularly |
| Él / Ella / Usted | frecuentó | He / she / you attend regularly |
| Nosotros / as | frecuentamos | We attend regularly |
| Vosotros / as | frecuentasteis | You attend regularly |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | frecuentaron | They / you attend regularly |
| Vos | frecuentaste | You attend regularly |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was attended regularly” or “she was attended regularly” 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 | frecuentaba | I was attended regularly |
| Tú | frecuentabas | You were attended regularly |
| Él / Ella / Usted | frecuentaba | He was / she was / you were attended regularly |
| Nosotros / as | frecuentábamos | We were attended regularly |
| Vosotros / as | frecuentabais | You were attended regularly |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | frecuentaban | They / you were attended regularly |
| Vos | frecuentabas | You were attended regularly |
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 attending regularly” and “she has attending regularly”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he attended regularly | I have attending regularly |
| Tú | has attended regularly | You have attending regularly |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha attended regularly | He has / she has / you have attending regularly |
| Nosotros / as | hemos attended regularly | We have attending regularly |
| Vosotros / as | habéis attended regularly | You have attending regularly |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han attended regularly | They / you have attending regularly |
| Vos | has attended regularly | You have attending regularly |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would attend regularly” or “she would attend regularly”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | frecuentaría | I would attend regularly |
| Tú | frecuentarías | You would attend regularly |
| Él / Ella / Usted | frecuentaría | He / she / you would attend regularly |
| Nosotros / as | frecuentaríamos | We would attend regularly |
| Vosotros / as | frecuentaríais | You would attend regularly |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | frecuentarían | They / you would attend regularly |
| Vos | frecuentarías | You would attend regularly |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will attend regularly” or “they will attend regularly”.
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 frecuentar” means “They are going to attend regularly”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | frecuentaré | I will attend regularly |
| Tú | frecuentarás | You will attend regularly |
| Él / Ella / Usted | frecuentará | He / she / you will attend regularly |
| Nosotros / as | frecuentaremos | We will attend regularly |
| Vosotros / as | frecuentaréis | You will attend regularly |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | frecuentarán | They / you will attend regularly |
| Vos | frecuentarás | You will attend regularly |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | frecuente |
| Tú | frecuentes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | frecuente |
| Nosotros / as | frecuentemos |
| Vosotros / as | frecuentéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | frecuenten |
| Vos | frecuentes |
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 | frecuentara | frecuentase |
| Tú | frecuentaras | frecuentase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | frecuentara | frecuentase |
| Nosotros / as | frecuentáramos | frecuentásemos |
| Vosotros / as | frecuentarais | frecuentaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | frecuentaran | frecuentasen |
| Vos | frecuentaras | frecuentase |
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 | frecuentare |
| Tú | frecuentares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | frecuentare |
| Nosotros / as | frecuentáremos |
| Vosotros / as | frecuentareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | frecuentaren |
| Vos | frecuentares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “attend regularly!” and “don’t attend regularly!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | frecuenta | no frecuentes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | frecuente | no frecuente |
| Nosotros / as | frecuentemos | no frecuentemos |
| Vosotros / as | frecuentad | no frecuentéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | frecuenten | no frecuenten |
| Vos | frecuentá | no frecuentes |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya attended regularly |
| Tú | hayas attended regularly |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya attended regularly |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos attended regularly |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis attended regularly |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan attended regularly |
| Vos | hayas attended regularly |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera attended regularly / hubiese attended regularly |
| Tú | hubieras attended regularly / hubieses attended regularly |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera attended regularly / hubiese attended regularly |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos attended regularly / hubiésemos attended regularly |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais attended regularly / hubieseis attended regularly |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran attended regularly / hubiesen attended regularly |
| Vos | hubieras attended regularly / hubieses attended regularly |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere attended regularly |
| Tú | hubieres attended regularly |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere attended regularly |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos attended regularly |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis attended regularly |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren attended regularly |
| Vos | hubieres attended regularly |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté frecuentando |
| Tú | estés frecuentando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté frecuentando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos frecuentando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis frecuentando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén frecuentando |
| Vos | estés frecuentando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera frecuentando / estuviese frecuentando |
| Tú | estuvieras frecuentando / estuvieses frecuentando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera frecuentando / estuviese frecuentando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos frecuentando / estuviésamos frecuentando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais frecuentando / estuvieseis frecuentando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera frecuentando / estuviese frecuentando |
| Vos | estuvieras frecuentando / estuvieses frecuentando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere frecuentando |
| Tú | estuvieres frecuentando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere frecuentando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos frecuentando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis frecuentando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere frecuentando |
| Vos | estuvieres frecuentando |
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 frecuentás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos frecuentaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos frecuentabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos frecuentarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos frecuentarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos frecuentes |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos frecuentaras / Vos frecuentase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos frecuentá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no frecuentes |