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Asechar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to trap, snare”.
Below are all of the conjugations for asechar 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 trap, snare |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | asechar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está asechando) and past continuous (estaba asechando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. trapping).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he asechado and hubiera asechado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have trapped).
| Gerundio / Gerund | asechando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | asechado |
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 trap” or “they trap”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | asecho |
| Tú | asechas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | asecha |
| Nosotros / as | asechamos |
| Vosotros / as | asecháis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | asechan |
| Vos | asechás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I trapped” or “she trapped” 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 | aseché | I trapped |
| Tú | asechaste | You trapped |
| Él / Ella / Usted | asechó | He / she / you trapped |
| Nosotros / as | asechamos | We trapped |
| Vosotros / as | asechasteis | You trapped |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | asecharon | They / you trapped |
| Vos | asechaste | You trapped |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was trapping” or “she was trapping” 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 | asechaba | I was trapping |
| Tú | asechabas | You were trapping |
| Él / Ella / Usted | asechaba | He was / she was / you were trapping |
| Nosotros / as | asechábamos | We were trapping |
| Vosotros / as | asechabais | You were trapping |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | asechaban | They / you were trapping |
| Vos | asechabas | You were trapping |
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 trapped” and “she has trapped”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he asechado | I have trapped |
| Tú | has asechado | You have trapped |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha asechado | He has / she has / you have trapped |
| Nosotros / as | hemos asechado | We have trapped |
| Vosotros / as | habéis asechado | You have trapped |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han asechado | They / you have trapped |
| Vos | has asechado | You have trapped |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would trap” or “she would trap”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | asecharía | I would trap |
| Tú | asecharías | You would trap |
| Él / Ella / Usted | asecharía | He / she / you would trap |
| Nosotros / as | asecharíamos | We would trap |
| Vosotros / as | asecharíais | You would trap |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | asecharían | They / you would trap |
| Vos | asecharías | You would trap |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will trap” or “they will trap”.
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 asechar” means “They are going to trap”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | asecharé | I will trap |
| Tú | asecharás | You will trap |
| Él / Ella / Usted | asechará | He / she / you will trap |
| Nosotros / as | asecharemos | We will trap |
| Vosotros / as | asecharéis | You will trap |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | asecharán | They / you will trap |
| Vos | asecharás | You will trap |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | aseche |
| Tú | aseches |
| Él / Ella / Usted | aseche |
| Nosotros / as | asechemos |
| Vosotros / as | asechéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | asechen |
| Vos | aseches |
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 | asechara | asechase |
| Tú | asecharas | asechase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | asechara | asechase |
| Nosotros / as | asecháramos | asechásemos |
| Vosotros / as | asecharais | asechaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | asecharan | asechasen |
| Vos | asecharas | asechase |
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 | asechare |
| Tú | asechares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | asechare |
| Nosotros / as | asecháremos |
| Vosotros / as | asechareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | asecharen |
| Vos | asechares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “trap!” and “don’t trap!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | asecha | no aseches |
| Él / Ella / Usted | aseche | no aseche |
| Nosotros / as | asechemos | no asechemos |
| Vosotros / as | asechad | no asechéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | asechen | no asechen |
| Vos | asechá | no aseches |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya asechado |
| Tú | hayas asechado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya asechado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos asechado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis asechado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan asechado |
| Vos | hayas asechado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera asechado / hubiese asechado |
| Tú | hubieras asechado / hubieses asechado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera asechado / hubiese asechado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos asechado / hubiésemos asechado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais asechado / hubieseis asechado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran asechado / hubiesen asechado |
| Vos | hubieras asechado / hubieses asechado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere asechado |
| Tú | hubieres asechado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere asechado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos asechado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis asechado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren asechado |
| Vos | hubieres asechado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté asechando |
| Tú | estés asechando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté asechando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos asechando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis asechando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén asechando |
| Vos | estés asechando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera asechando / estuviese asechando |
| Tú | estuvieras asechando / estuvieses asechando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera asechando / estuviese asechando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos asechando / estuviésamos asechando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais asechando / estuvieseis asechando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera asechando / estuviese asechando |
| Vos | estuvieras asechando / estuvieses asechando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere asechando |
| Tú | estuvieres asechando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere asechando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos asechando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis asechando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere asechando |
| Vos | estuvieres asechando |
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 asechás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos asechaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos asechabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos asecharías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos asecharás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos aseches |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos asecharas / Vos asechase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos asechá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no aseches |