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Graduarse is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to graduate as, gauge, graduate”.
It’s a reflexive verb, which means the subject performs the action upon themselves – e.g. “I wake myself”.
Reflexive verbs always carry a reflexive pronoun – me, te, se, nos or os – which is often placed before the conjugated verb (e.g. me gradúo) or after the infinitive (e.g. Él tiene que graduarse).
Below are all of the conjugations for graduarse 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 graduate as, gauge, graduate |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | graduarse |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está graduándose) and past continuous (estaba graduándose). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. gauged).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he gauged and hubiera gauged. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have gauging).
| Gerundio / Gerund | graduándose |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | gauged |
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 gauge” or “they gauge”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | me gradúo |
| Tú | te gradúas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se gradúa |
| Nosotros / as | nos graduamos |
| Vosotros / as | os graduáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se gradúan |
| Vos | te graduás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I gauge” or “she gauge” 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 | me gradué | I gauge |
| Tú | te graduaste | You gauge |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se graduó | He / she / you gauge |
| Nosotros / as | nos graduamos | We gauge |
| Vosotros / as | os graduasteis | You gauge |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se graduaron | They / you gauge |
| Vos | te graduaste | You gauge |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was gauged” or “she was gauged” 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 | me graduaba | I was gauged |
| Tú | te graduabas | You were gauged |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se graduaba | He was / she was / you were gauged |
| Nosotros / as | nos graduábamos | We were gauged |
| Vosotros / as | os graduabais | You were gauged |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se graduaban | They / you were gauged |
| Vos | te graduabas | You were gauged |
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 gauging” and “she has gauging”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me he gauged | I have gauging |
| Tú | te has gauged | You have gauging |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se ha gauged | He has / she has / you have gauging |
| Nosotros / as | nos hemos gauged | We have gauging |
| Vosotros / as | os habéis gauged | You have gauging |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se han gauged | They / you have gauging |
| Vos | te has gauged | You have gauging |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would gauge” or “she would gauge”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me graduaría | I would gauge |
| Tú | te graduarías | You would gauge |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se graduaría | He / she / you would gauge |
| Nosotros / as | nos graduaríamos | We would gauge |
| Vosotros / as | os graduaríais | You would gauge |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se graduarían | They / you would gauge |
| Vos | te graduarías | You would gauge |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will gauge” or “they will gauge”.
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 graduarse” means “They are going to gauge”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me graduaré | I will gauge |
| Tú | te graduarás | You will gauge |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se graduará | He / she / you will gauge |
| Nosotros / as | nos graduaremos | We will gauge |
| Vosotros / as | os graduaréis | You will gauge |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se graduarán | They / you will gauge |
| Vos | te graduarás | You will gauge |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | me gradúe |
| Tú | te gradúes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se gradúe |
| Nosotros / as | nos graduemos |
| Vosotros / as | os graduéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se gradúen |
| Vos | te gradúes |
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 | me graduara | me graduase |
| Tú | te graduaras | me graduase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se graduara | se graduase |
| Nosotros / as | nos graduáramos | nos graduásemos |
| Vosotros / as | os graduarais | os graduaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se graduaran | se graduasen |
| Vos | te graduaras | me graduase |
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 | me graduare |
| Tú | te graduares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se graduare |
| Nosotros / as | nos graduáremos |
| Vosotros / as | os graduareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se graduaren |
| Vos | te graduares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “gauge!” and “don’t gauge!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | gradúate | no te gradúes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | gradúese | no se gradúe |
| Nosotros / as | graduémonos | no nos graduemos |
| Vosotros / as | graduaos | no os graduéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | gradúense | no se gradúen |
| Vos | graduate | no te gradúes |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya gauged |
| Tú | hayas gauged |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya gauged |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos gauged |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis gauged |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan gauged |
| Vos | hayas gauged |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera gauged / hubiese gauged |
| Tú | hubieras gauged / hubieses gauged |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera gauged / hubiese gauged |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos gauged / hubiésemos gauged |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais gauged / hubieseis gauged |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran gauged / hubiesen gauged |
| Vos | hubieras gauged / hubieses gauged |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere gauged |
| Tú | hubieres gauged |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere gauged |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos gauged |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis gauged |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren gauged |
| Vos | hubieres gauged |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté graduándose |
| Tú | estés graduándose |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté graduándose |
| Nosotros / as | estemos graduándose |
| Vosotros / as | estéis graduándose |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén graduándose |
| Vos | estés graduándose |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera graduándose / estuviese graduándose |
| Tú | estuvieras graduándose / estuvieses graduándose |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera graduándose / estuviese graduándose |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos graduándose / estuviésamos graduándose |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais graduándose / estuvieseis graduándose |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera graduándose / estuviese graduándose |
| Vos | estuvieras graduándose / estuvieses graduándose |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere graduándose |
| Tú | estuvieres graduándose |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere graduándose |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos graduándose |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis graduándose |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere graduándose |
| Vos | estuvieres graduándose |
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 te graduás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos te graduaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos te graduabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos te graduarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos te graduarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos te gradúes |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos te graduaras / Vos me graduase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos graduate |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no te gradúes |