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Cicatrizar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to heal”.
Below are all of the conjugations for cicatrizar 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 heal |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | cicatrizar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está cicatrizando) and past continuous (estaba cicatrizando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. healing).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he cicatrizado and hubiera cicatrizado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have healed).
| Gerundio / Gerund | cicatrizando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | cicatrizado |
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 heal” or “they heal”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | cicatrizo |
| Tú | cicatrizas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | cicatriza |
| Nosotros / as | cicatrizamos |
| Vosotros / as | cicatrizáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | cicatrizan |
| Vos | cicatrizás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I healed” or “she healed” 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 | cicatricé | I healed |
| Tú | cicatrizaste | You healed |
| Él / Ella / Usted | cicatrizó | He / she / you healed |
| Nosotros / as | cicatrizamos | We healed |
| Vosotros / as | cicatrizasteis | You healed |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | cicatrizaron | They / you healed |
| Vos | cicatrizaste | You healed |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was healing” or “she was healing” 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 | cicatrizaba | I was healing |
| Tú | cicatrizabas | You were healing |
| Él / Ella / Usted | cicatrizaba | He was / she was / you were healing |
| Nosotros / as | cicatrizábamos | We were healing |
| Vosotros / as | cicatrizabais | You were healing |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | cicatrizaban | They / you were healing |
| Vos | cicatrizabas | You were healing |
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 healed” and “she has healed”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he cicatrizado | I have healed |
| Tú | has cicatrizado | You have healed |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha cicatrizado | He has / she has / you have healed |
| Nosotros / as | hemos cicatrizado | We have healed |
| Vosotros / as | habéis cicatrizado | You have healed |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han cicatrizado | They / you have healed |
| Vos | has cicatrizado | You have healed |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would heal” or “she would heal”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | cicatrizaría | I would heal |
| Tú | cicatrizarías | You would heal |
| Él / Ella / Usted | cicatrizaría | He / she / you would heal |
| Nosotros / as | cicatrizaríamos | We would heal |
| Vosotros / as | cicatrizaríais | You would heal |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | cicatrizarían | They / you would heal |
| Vos | cicatrizarías | You would heal |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will heal” or “they will heal”.
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 cicatrizar” means “They are going to heal”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | cicatrizaré | I will heal |
| Tú | cicatrizarás | You will heal |
| Él / Ella / Usted | cicatrizará | He / she / you will heal |
| Nosotros / as | cicatrizaremos | We will heal |
| Vosotros / as | cicatrizaréis | You will heal |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | cicatrizarán | They / you will heal |
| Vos | cicatrizarás | You will heal |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | cicatrice |
| Tú | cicatrices |
| Él / Ella / Usted | cicatrice |
| Nosotros / as | cicatricemos |
| Vosotros / as | cicatricéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | cicatricen |
| Vos | cicatrices |
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 | cicatrizara | cicatrizase |
| Tú | cicatrizaras | cicatrizase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | cicatrizara | cicatrizase |
| Nosotros / as | cicatrizáramos | cicatrizásemos |
| Vosotros / as | cicatrizarais | cicatrizaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | cicatrizaran | cicatrizasen |
| Vos | cicatrizaras | cicatrizase |
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 | cicatrizare |
| Tú | cicatrizares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | cicatrizare |
| Nosotros / as | cicatrizáremos |
| Vosotros / as | cicatrizareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | cicatrizaren |
| Vos | cicatrizares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “heal!” and “don’t heal!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | cicatriza | no cicatrices |
| Él / Ella / Usted | cicatrice | no cicatrice |
| Nosotros / as | cicatricemos | no cicatricemos |
| Vosotros / as | cicatrizad | no cicatricéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | cicatricen | no cicatricen |
| Vos | cicatrizá | no cicatrices |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya cicatrizado |
| Tú | hayas cicatrizado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya cicatrizado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos cicatrizado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis cicatrizado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan cicatrizado |
| Vos | hayas cicatrizado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera cicatrizado / hubiese cicatrizado |
| Tú | hubieras cicatrizado / hubieses cicatrizado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera cicatrizado / hubiese cicatrizado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos cicatrizado / hubiésemos cicatrizado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais cicatrizado / hubieseis cicatrizado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran cicatrizado / hubiesen cicatrizado |
| Vos | hubieras cicatrizado / hubieses cicatrizado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere cicatrizado |
| Tú | hubieres cicatrizado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere cicatrizado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos cicatrizado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis cicatrizado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren cicatrizado |
| Vos | hubieres cicatrizado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté cicatrizando |
| Tú | estés cicatrizando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté cicatrizando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos cicatrizando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis cicatrizando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén cicatrizando |
| Vos | estés cicatrizando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera cicatrizando / estuviese cicatrizando |
| Tú | estuvieras cicatrizando / estuvieses cicatrizando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera cicatrizando / estuviese cicatrizando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos cicatrizando / estuviésamos cicatrizando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais cicatrizando / estuvieseis cicatrizando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera cicatrizando / estuviese cicatrizando |
| Vos | estuvieras cicatrizando / estuvieses cicatrizando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere cicatrizando |
| Tú | estuvieres cicatrizando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere cicatrizando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos cicatrizando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis cicatrizando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere cicatrizando |
| Vos | estuvieres cicatrizando |
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 cicatrizás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos cicatrizaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos cicatrizabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos cicatrizarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos cicatrizarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos cicatrices |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos cicatrizaras / Vos cicatrizase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos cicatrizá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no cicatrices |