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Impresionar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to impress, move”.
Below are all of the conjugations for impresionar 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 impress, move |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | impresionar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está impresionando) and past continuous (estaba impresionando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. impressing).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he impresionado and hubiera impresionado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have impressed).
| Gerundio / Gerund | impresionando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | impresionado |
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 impress” or “they impress”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | impresiono |
| Tú | impresionas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | impresiona |
| Nosotros / as | impresionamos |
| Vosotros / as | impresionáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | impresionan |
| Vos | impresionás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I impressed” or “she impressed” 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 | impresioné | I impressed |
| Tú | impresionaste | You impressed |
| Él / Ella / Usted | impresionó | He / she / you impressed |
| Nosotros / as | impresionamos | We impressed |
| Vosotros / as | impresionasteis | You impressed |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | impresionaron | They / you impressed |
| Vos | impresionaste | You impressed |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was impressing” or “she was impressing” 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 | impresionaba | I was impressing |
| Tú | impresionabas | You were impressing |
| Él / Ella / Usted | impresionaba | He was / she was / you were impressing |
| Nosotros / as | impresionábamos | We were impressing |
| Vosotros / as | impresionabais | You were impressing |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | impresionaban | They / you were impressing |
| Vos | impresionabas | You were impressing |
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 impressed” and “she has impressed”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he impresionado | I have impressed |
| Tú | has impresionado | You have impressed |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha impresionado | He has / she has / you have impressed |
| Nosotros / as | hemos impresionado | We have impressed |
| Vosotros / as | habéis impresionado | You have impressed |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han impresionado | They / you have impressed |
| Vos | has impresionado | You have impressed |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would impress” or “she would impress”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | impresionaría | I would impress |
| Tú | impresionarías | You would impress |
| Él / Ella / Usted | impresionaría | He / she / you would impress |
| Nosotros / as | impresionaríamos | We would impress |
| Vosotros / as | impresionaríais | You would impress |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | impresionarían | They / you would impress |
| Vos | impresionarías | You would impress |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will impress” or “they will impress”.
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 impresionar” means “They are going to impress”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | impresionaré | I will impress |
| Tú | impresionarás | You will impress |
| Él / Ella / Usted | impresionará | He / she / you will impress |
| Nosotros / as | impresionaremos | We will impress |
| Vosotros / as | impresionaréis | You will impress |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | impresionarán | They / you will impress |
| Vos | impresionarás | You will impress |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | impresione |
| Tú | impresiones |
| Él / Ella / Usted | impresione |
| Nosotros / as | impresionemos |
| Vosotros / as | impresionéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | impresionen |
| Vos | impresiones |
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 | impresionara | impresionase |
| Tú | impresionaras | impresionase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | impresionara | impresionase |
| Nosotros / as | impresionáramos | impresionásemos |
| Vosotros / as | impresionarais | impresionaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | impresionaran | impresionasen |
| Vos | impresionaras | impresionase |
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 | impresionare |
| Tú | impresionares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | impresionare |
| Nosotros / as | impresionáremos |
| Vosotros / as | impresionareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | impresionaren |
| Vos | impresionares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “impress!” and “don’t impress!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | impresiona | no impresiones |
| Él / Ella / Usted | impresione | no impresione |
| Nosotros / as | impresionemos | no impresionemos |
| Vosotros / as | impresionad | no impresionéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | impresionen | no impresionen |
| Vos | impresioná | no impresiones |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya impresionado |
| Tú | hayas impresionado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya impresionado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos impresionado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis impresionado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan impresionado |
| Vos | hayas impresionado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera impresionado / hubiese impresionado |
| Tú | hubieras impresionado / hubieses impresionado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera impresionado / hubiese impresionado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos impresionado / hubiésemos impresionado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais impresionado / hubieseis impresionado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran impresionado / hubiesen impresionado |
| Vos | hubieras impresionado / hubieses impresionado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere impresionado |
| Tú | hubieres impresionado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere impresionado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos impresionado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis impresionado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren impresionado |
| Vos | hubieres impresionado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté impresionando |
| Tú | estés impresionando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté impresionando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos impresionando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis impresionando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén impresionando |
| Vos | estés impresionando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera impresionando / estuviese impresionando |
| Tú | estuvieras impresionando / estuvieses impresionando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera impresionando / estuviese impresionando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos impresionando / estuviésamos impresionando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais impresionando / estuvieseis impresionando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera impresionando / estuviese impresionando |
| Vos | estuvieras impresionando / estuvieses impresionando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere impresionando |
| Tú | estuvieres impresionando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere impresionando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos impresionando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis impresionando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere impresionando |
| Vos | estuvieres impresionando |
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 impresionás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos impresionaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos impresionabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos impresionarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos impresionarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos impresiones |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos impresionaras / Vos impresionase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos impresioná |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no impresiones |