Almorzar conjugation

Almorzar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to eat lunch, have lunch”.

Below are all of the conjugations for almorzar 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.

Almorzar Infinitive

Almorzar Gerund and Past Participle

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

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

Almorzar 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.

Almorzar 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 have lunch” or “they have lunch”.

Almorzar Preterite / Pretérito Indefinido

Your simple past tense, e.g. “I had lunch” or “she had lunch” 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.

Almorzar Imperfect / Pretérito Imperfecto

The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was having lunch” or “she was having lunch” 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.

Almorzar 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 had lunch” and “she has had lunch”.

Almorzar Conditional / Condicional

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

Almorzar Future / Futuro

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

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 almorzar” means “They are going to have lunch”.