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Inspirar conjugation

Inspirar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to inspire to”.

Below are all of the conjugations for inspirar 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.

Inspirar Infinitive

English Infinitive	to inspire to
Spanish Infinitive	inspirar

Inspirar Gerund and Past Participle

The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está inspirando) and past continuous (estaba inspirando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. inspiring to).

The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he inspirado and hubiera inspirado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have inspired to).

Gerundio / Gerund	inspirando
Participio / Past Participle	inspirado

Inspirar Indicative Conjugations

The basic form of speech, el indicativo is used for making statements, talking about facts, events and things that are certain and objective.

Inspirar Presente / Present

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 inspire to” or “they inspire to”.

Pronoun	Spanish
Yo	inspiro
Tú	inspiras
Él / Ella / Usted	inspira
Nosotros / as	inspiramos
Vosotros / as	inspiráis
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	inspiran
Vos	inspirás

Inspirar Preterite / Pretérito Indefinido

Your simple past tense, e.g. “I inspired to” or “she inspired to” 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	inspiré	I inspired to
Tú	inspiraste	You inspired to
Él / Ella / Usted	inspiró	He / she / you inspired to
Nosotros / as	inspiramos	We inspired to
Vosotros / as	inspirasteis	You inspired to
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	inspiraron	They / you inspired to
Vos	inspiraste	You inspired to

Inspirar Imperfect / Pretérito Imperfecto

The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was inspiring to” or “she was inspiring to” 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	inspiraba	I was inspiring to
Tú	inspirabas	You were inspiring to
Él / Ella / Usted	inspiraba	He was / she was / you were inspiring to
Nosotros / as	inspirábamos	We were inspiring to
Vosotros / as	inspirabais	You were inspiring to
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	inspiraban	They / you were inspiring to
Vos	inspirabas	You were inspiring to

Inspirar Perfect / Perfecto

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 inspired to” and “she has inspired to”.

Pronoun	Spanish	English
Yo	he inspirado	I have inspired to
Tú	has inspirado	You have inspired to
Él / Ella / Usted	ha inspirado	He has / she has / you have inspired to
Nosotros / as	hemos inspirado	We have inspired to
Vosotros / as	habéis inspirado	You have inspired to
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	han inspirado	They / you have inspired to
Vos	has inspirado	You have inspired to

Inspirar Conditional / Condicional

The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would inspire to” or “she would inspire to”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.

Pronoun	Spanish	Englush
Yo	inspiraría	I would inspire to
Tú	inspirarías	You would inspire to
Él / Ella / Usted	inspiraría	He / she / you would inspire to
Nosotros / as	inspiraríamos	We would inspire to
Vosotros / as	inspiraríais	You would inspire to
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	inspirarían	They / you would inspire to
Vos	inspirarías	You would inspire to

Inspirar Future / Futuro

The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will inspire to” or “they will inspire to”.

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 inspirar” means “They are going to inspire to”.

Pronoun	Spanish	English
Yo	inspiraré	I will inspire to
Tú	inspirarás	You will inspire to
Él / Ella / Usted	inspirará	He / she / you will inspire to
Nosotros / as	inspiraremos	We will inspire to
Vosotros / as	inspiraréis	You will inspire to
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	inspirarán	They / you will inspire to
Vos	inspirarás	You will inspire to

Inspirar Subjunctive Conjugations

Inspirar Present Subjunctive / Presente de Subjuntivo

Pronoun	Spanish
Yo	inspire
Tú	inspires
Él / Ella / Usted	inspire
Nosotros / as	inspiremos
Vosotros / as	inspiréis
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	inspiren
Vos	inspires

Inspirar Past Subjunctive / Imperfecto de Subjuntivo

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	inspirara	inspirase
Tú	inspiraras	inspirase
Él / Ella / Usted	inspirara	inspirase
Nosotros / as	inspiráramos	inspirásemos
Vosotros / as	inspirarais	inspiraseis
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	inspiraran	inspirasen
Vos	inspiraras	inspirase

Inspirar Future Subjunctive / Futuro de Subjuntivo

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	inspirare
Tú	inspirares
Él / Ella / Usted	inspirare
Nosotros / as	inspiráremos
Vosotros / as	inspirareis
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	inspiraren
Vos	inspirares

Inspirar Imperative Conjugations

Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “inspire to!” and “don’t inspire to!”.

Pronoun	Spanish Affirmative	Spanish Negative
Tú	inspira	no inspires
Él / Ella / Usted	inspire	no inspire
Nosotros / as	inspiremos	no inspiremos
Vosotros / as	inspirad	no inspiréis
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	inspiren	no inspiren
Vos	inspirá	no inspires

Inspirar Compound Subjunctive Tenses

Inspirar Subjunctive Perfect

Pronoun	Spanish
Yo	haya inspirado
Tú	hayas inspirado
Él / Ella / Usted	haya inspirado
Nosotros / as	hayamos inspirado
Vosotros / as	hayáis inspirado
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	hayan inspirado
Vos	hayas inspirado

Inspirar Subjunctive Past Perfect

Pronoun	Spanish
Yo	hubiera inspirado / hubiese inspirado
Tú	hubieras inspirado / hubieses inspirado
Él / Ella / Usted	hubiera inspirado / hubiese inspirado
Nosotros / as	hubiéramos inspirado / hubiésemos inspirado
Vosotros / as	hubierais inspirado / hubieseis inspirado
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	hubieran inspirado / hubiesen inspirado
Vos	hubieras inspirado / hubieses inspirado

Inspirar Subjunctive Future Perfect

Pronoun	Spanish
Yo	hubiere inspirado
Tú	hubieres inspirado
Él / Ella / Usted	hubiere inspirado
Nosotros / as	hubiéremos inspirado
Vosotros / as	hubiereis inspirado
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	hubieren inspirado
Vos	hubieres inspirado

Inspirar Subjective Progressive Perfect

Pronoun	Spanish
Yo	esté inspirando
Tú	estés inspirando
Él / Ella / Usted	esté inspirando
Nosotros / as	estemos inspirando
Vosotros / as	estéis inspirando
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	estén inspirando
Vos	estés inspirando

Inspirar Subjunctive Past Progressive

Pronoun	Spanish
Yo	estuviera inspirando / estuviese inspirando
Tú	estuvieras inspirando / estuvieses inspirando
Él / Ella / Usted	estuviera inspirando / estuviese inspirando
Nosotros / as	estuviéramos inspirando / estuviésamos inspirando
Vosotros / as	estuvierais inspirando / estuvieseis inspirando
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	estuviera inspirando / estuviese inspirando
Vos	estuvieras inspirando / estuvieses inspirando

Inspirar Subjunctive Future Progressive

Pronoun	Spanish
Yo	estuviere inspirando
Tú	estuvieres inspirando
Él / Ella / Usted	estuviere inspirando
Nosotros / as	estuviéremos inspirando
Vosotros / as	estuviereis inspirando
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes	estuviere inspirando
Vos	estuvieres inspirando

Inspirar Vos Conjugation

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 inspirás
Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo	Vos inspiraste
Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo	Vos inspirabas
Conditional Condicional	Vos inspirarías
Future Futuro de Indicativo	Vos inspirarás
Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo	Vos inspires
Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo	Vos inspiraras / Vos inspirase
Affirmative Imperative Imperativo	Vos inspirá
Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo	Vos no inspires