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Desamparar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to abandon, leave”.
Below are all of the conjugations for desamparar 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 abandon, leave |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | desamparar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está desamparando) and past continuous (estaba desamparando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. abandoning).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he desamparado and hubiera desamparado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have abandoned).
| Gerundio / Gerund | desamparando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | desamparado |
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 abandon” or “they abandon”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | desamparo |
| Tú | desamparas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desampara |
| Nosotros / as | desamparamos |
| Vosotros / as | desamparáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desamparan |
| Vos | desamparás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I abandoned” or “she abandoned” 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 | desamparé | I abandoned |
| Tú | desamparaste | You abandoned |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desamparó | He / she / you abandoned |
| Nosotros / as | desamparamos | We abandoned |
| Vosotros / as | desamparasteis | You abandoned |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desampararon | They / you abandoned |
| Vos | desamparaste | You abandoned |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was abandoning” or “she was abandoning” 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 | desamparaba | I was abandoning |
| Tú | desamparabas | You were abandoning |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desamparaba | He was / she was / you were abandoning |
| Nosotros / as | desamparábamos | We were abandoning |
| Vosotros / as | desamparabais | You were abandoning |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desamparaban | They / you were abandoning |
| Vos | desamparabas | You were abandoning |
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 abandoned” and “she has abandoned”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he desamparado | I have abandoned |
| Tú | has desamparado | You have abandoned |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha desamparado | He has / she has / you have abandoned |
| Nosotros / as | hemos desamparado | We have abandoned |
| Vosotros / as | habéis desamparado | You have abandoned |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han desamparado | They / you have abandoned |
| Vos | has desamparado | You have abandoned |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would abandon” or “she would abandon”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | desampararía | I would abandon |
| Tú | desampararías | You would abandon |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desampararía | He / she / you would abandon |
| Nosotros / as | desampararíamos | We would abandon |
| Vosotros / as | desampararíais | You would abandon |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desampararían | They / you would abandon |
| Vos | desampararías | You would abandon |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will abandon” or “they will abandon”.
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 desamparar” means “They are going to abandon”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | desampararé | I will abandon |
| Tú | desampararás | You will abandon |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desamparará | He / she / you will abandon |
| Nosotros / as | desampararemos | We will abandon |
| Vosotros / as | desampararéis | You will abandon |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desampararán | They / you will abandon |
| Vos | desampararás | You will abandon |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | desampare |
| Tú | desampares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desampare |
| Nosotros / as | desamparemos |
| Vosotros / as | desamparéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desamparen |
| Vos | desampares |
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 | desamparara | desamparase |
| Tú | desampararas | desamparase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desamparara | desamparase |
| Nosotros / as | desamparáramos | desamparásemos |
| Vosotros / as | desampararais | desamparaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desampararan | desamparasen |
| Vos | desampararas | desamparase |
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 | desamparare |
| Tú | desamparares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desamparare |
| Nosotros / as | desamparáremos |
| Vosotros / as | desamparareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desampararen |
| Vos | desamparares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “abandon!” and “don’t abandon!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | desampara | no desampares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | desampare | no desampare |
| Nosotros / as | desamparemos | no desamparemos |
| Vosotros / as | desamparad | no desamparéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | desamparen | no desamparen |
| Vos | desampará | no desampares |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya desamparado |
| Tú | hayas desamparado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya desamparado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos desamparado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis desamparado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan desamparado |
| Vos | hayas desamparado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera desamparado / hubiese desamparado |
| Tú | hubieras desamparado / hubieses desamparado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera desamparado / hubiese desamparado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos desamparado / hubiésemos desamparado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais desamparado / hubieseis desamparado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran desamparado / hubiesen desamparado |
| Vos | hubieras desamparado / hubieses desamparado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere desamparado |
| Tú | hubieres desamparado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere desamparado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos desamparado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis desamparado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren desamparado |
| Vos | hubieres desamparado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté desamparando |
| Tú | estés desamparando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté desamparando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos desamparando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis desamparando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén desamparando |
| Vos | estés desamparando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera desamparando / estuviese desamparando |
| Tú | estuvieras desamparando / estuvieses desamparando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera desamparando / estuviese desamparando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos desamparando / estuviésamos desamparando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais desamparando / estuvieseis desamparando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera desamparando / estuviese desamparando |
| Vos | estuvieras desamparando / estuvieses desamparando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere desamparando |
| Tú | estuvieres desamparando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere desamparando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos desamparando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis desamparando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere desamparando |
| Vos | estuvieres desamparando |
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 desamparás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos desamparaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos desamparabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos desampararías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos desampararás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos desampares |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos desampararas / Vos desamparase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos desampará |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no desampares |