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Impacientarse is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to lose patience, become impatient”.
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 impaciento) or after the infinitive (e.g. Él tiene que impacientarse).
Below are all of the conjugations for impacientarse 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 lose patience, become impatient |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | impacientarse |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está impacientándose) and past continuous (estaba impacientándose). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. lost patience).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he lost patience and hubiera lost patience. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have losing patience).
| Gerundio / Gerund | impacientándose |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | lost patience |
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 lose patience” or “they lose patience”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | me impaciento |
| Tú | te impacientas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se impacienta |
| Nosotros / as | nos impacientamos |
| Vosotros / as | os impacientáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se impacientan |
| Vos | te impacientás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I lose patience” or “she lose patience” 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 impacienté | I lose patience |
| Tú | te impacientaste | You lose patience |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se impacientó | He / she / you lose patience |
| Nosotros / as | nos impacientamos | We lose patience |
| Vosotros / as | os impacientasteis | You lose patience |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se impacientaron | They / you lose patience |
| Vos | te impacientaste | You lose patience |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was lost patience” or “she was lost patience” 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 impacientaba | I was lost patience |
| Tú | te impacientabas | You were lost patience |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se impacientaba | He was / she was / you were lost patience |
| Nosotros / as | nos impacientábamos | We were lost patience |
| Vosotros / as | os impacientabais | You were lost patience |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se impacientaban | They / you were lost patience |
| Vos | te impacientabas | You were lost patience |
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 losing patience” and “she has losing patience”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me he lost patience | I have losing patience |
| Tú | te has lost patience | You have losing patience |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se ha lost patience | He has / she has / you have losing patience |
| Nosotros / as | nos hemos lost patience | We have losing patience |
| Vosotros / as | os habéis lost patience | You have losing patience |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se han lost patience | They / you have losing patience |
| Vos | te has lost patience | You have losing patience |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would lose patience” or “she would lose patience”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me impacientaría | I would lose patience |
| Tú | te impacientarías | You would lose patience |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se impacientaría | He / she / you would lose patience |
| Nosotros / as | nos impacientaríamos | We would lose patience |
| Vosotros / as | os impacientaríais | You would lose patience |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se impacientarían | They / you would lose patience |
| Vos | te impacientarías | You would lose patience |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will lose patience” or “they will lose patience”.
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 impacientarse” means “They are going to lose patience”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | me impacientaré | I will lose patience |
| Tú | te impacientarás | You will lose patience |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se impacientará | He / she / you will lose patience |
| Nosotros / as | nos impacientaremos | We will lose patience |
| Vosotros / as | os impacientaréis | You will lose patience |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se impacientarán | They / you will lose patience |
| Vos | te impacientarás | You will lose patience |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | me impaciente |
| Tú | te impacientes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se impaciente |
| Nosotros / as | nos impacientemos |
| Vosotros / as | os impacientéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se impacienten |
| Vos | te impacientes |
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 impacientara | me impacientase |
| Tú | te impacientaras | me impacientase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se impacientara | se impacientase |
| Nosotros / as | nos impacientáramos | nos impacientásemos |
| Vosotros / as | os impacientarais | os impacientaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se impacientaran | se impacientasen |
| Vos | te impacientaras | me impacientase |
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 impacientare |
| Tú | te impacientares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | se impacientare |
| Nosotros / as | nos impacientáremos |
| Vosotros / as | os impacientareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | se impacientaren |
| Vos | te impacientares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “lose patience!” and “don’t lose patience!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | impaciéntate | no te impacientes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | impaciéntese | no se impaciente |
| Nosotros / as | impacientémonos | no nos impacientemos |
| Vosotros / as | impacientaos | no os impacientéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | impaciéntense | no se impacienten |
| Vos | impacientate | no te impacientes |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya lost patience |
| Tú | hayas lost patience |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya lost patience |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos lost patience |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis lost patience |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan lost patience |
| Vos | hayas lost patience |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera lost patience / hubiese lost patience |
| Tú | hubieras lost patience / hubieses lost patience |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera lost patience / hubiese lost patience |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos lost patience / hubiésemos lost patience |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais lost patience / hubieseis lost patience |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran lost patience / hubiesen lost patience |
| Vos | hubieras lost patience / hubieses lost patience |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere lost patience |
| Tú | hubieres lost patience |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere lost patience |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos lost patience |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis lost patience |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren lost patience |
| Vos | hubieres lost patience |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté impacientándose |
| Tú | estés impacientándose |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté impacientándose |
| Nosotros / as | estemos impacientándose |
| Vosotros / as | estéis impacientándose |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén impacientándose |
| Vos | estés impacientándose |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera impacientándose / estuviese impacientándose |
| Tú | estuvieras impacientándose / estuvieses impacientándose |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera impacientándose / estuviese impacientándose |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos impacientándose / estuviésamos impacientándose |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais impacientándose / estuvieseis impacientándose |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera impacientándose / estuviese impacientándose |
| Vos | estuvieras impacientándose / estuvieses impacientándose |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere impacientándose |
| Tú | estuvieres impacientándose |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere impacientándose |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos impacientándose |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis impacientándose |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere impacientándose |
| Vos | estuvieres impacientándose |
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 impacientás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos te impacientaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos te impacientabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos te impacientarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos te impacientarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos te impacientes |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos te impacientaras / Vos me impacientase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos impacientate |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no te impacientes |