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Descontar is a Spanish verb which translates into English as “to discount, deduct”.
Below are all of the conjugations for descontar 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 discount, deduct |
|---|---|
| Spanish Infinitive | descontar |
The gerund (gerundio) is used with the continuous tenses, e.g. present continuous (está descontando) and past continuous (estaba descontando). The easiest way to think of it is the equivalent of english’s -ing form (e.g. discounting).
The past participle (participio) is used with perfect tense ‘haber’ verbs, e.g. he descontado and hubiera descontado. These are the equivalent of English’s ‘have’ (e.g. have discounted).
| Gerundio / Gerund | descontando |
|---|---|
| Participio / Past Participle | descontado |
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 discount” or “they discount”.
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | descuento |
| Tú | descuentas |
| Él / Ella / Usted | descuenta |
| Nosotros / as | descontamos |
| Vosotros / as | descontáis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | descuentan |
| Vos | descontás |
Your simple past tense, e.g. “I discounted” or “she discounted” 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 | desconté | I discounted |
| Tú | descontaste | You discounted |
| Él / Ella / Usted | descontó | He / she / you discounted |
| Nosotros / as | descontamos | We discounted |
| Vosotros / as | descontasteis | You discounted |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | descontaron | They / you discounted |
| Vos | descontaste | You discounted |
The pretérito imperfecto roughly translates as “I was discounting” or “she was discounting” 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 | descontaba | I was discounting |
| Tú | descontabas | You were discounting |
| Él / Ella / Usted | descontaba | He was / she was / you were discounting |
| Nosotros / as | descontábamos | We were discounting |
| Vosotros / as | descontabais | You were discounting |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | descontaban | They / you were discounting |
| Vos | descontabas | You were discounting |
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 discounted” and “she has discounted”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | he descontado | I have discounted |
| Tú | has descontado | You have discounted |
| Él / Ella / Usted | ha descontado | He has / she has / you have discounted |
| Nosotros / as | hemos descontado | We have discounted |
| Vosotros / as | habéis descontado | You have discounted |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | han descontado | They / you have discounted |
| Vos | has descontado | You have discounted |
The conditional is used in place of the English modal verb “would”, i.e. “I would discount” or “she would discount”. It can be used to talk about hypothetical situations.
| Pronoun | Spanish | Englush |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | descontaría | I would discount |
| Tú | descontarías | You would discount |
| Él / Ella / Usted | descontaría | He / she / you would discount |
| Nosotros / as | descontaríamos | We would discount |
| Vosotros / as | descontaríais | You would discount |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | descontarían | They / you would discount |
| Vos | descontarías | You would discount |
The future tense, simply put, replaces the English modal verb “will” – i.e. “I will discount” or “they will discount”.
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 descontar” means “They are going to discount”.
| Pronoun | Spanish | English |
|---|---|---|
| Yo | descontaré | I will discount |
| Tú | descontarás | You will discount |
| Él / Ella / Usted | descontará | He / she / you will discount |
| Nosotros / as | descontaremos | We will discount |
| Vosotros / as | descontaréis | You will discount |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | descontarán | They / you will discount |
| Vos | descontarás | You will discount |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | descuente |
| Tú | descuentes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | descuente |
| Nosotros / as | descontemos |
| Vosotros / as | descontéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | descuenten |
| Vos | descuentes |
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 | descontara | descontase |
| Tú | descontaras | descontase |
| Él / Ella / Usted | descontara | descontase |
| Nosotros / as | descontáramos | descontásemos |
| Vosotros / as | descontarais | descontaseis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | descontaran | descontasen |
| Vos | descontaras | descontase |
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 | descontare |
| Tú | descontares |
| Él / Ella / Usted | descontare |
| Nosotros / as | descontáremos |
| Vosotros / as | descontareis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | descontaren |
| Vos | descontares |
Used for forming positive and negative commands, e.g. “discount!” and “don’t discount!”.
| Pronoun | Spanish Affirmative | Spanish Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Tú | descuenta | no descuentes |
| Él / Ella / Usted | descuente | no descuente |
| Nosotros / as | descontemos | no descontemos |
| Vosotros / as | descontad | no descontéis |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | descuenten | no descuenten |
| Vos | descontá | no descuentes |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | haya descontado |
| Tú | hayas descontado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | haya descontado |
| Nosotros / as | hayamos descontado |
| Vosotros / as | hayáis descontado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hayan descontado |
| Vos | hayas descontado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiera descontado / hubiese descontado |
| Tú | hubieras descontado / hubieses descontado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiera descontado / hubiese descontado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéramos descontado / hubiésemos descontado |
| Vosotros / as | hubierais descontado / hubieseis descontado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieran descontado / hubiesen descontado |
| Vos | hubieras descontado / hubieses descontado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | hubiere descontado |
| Tú | hubieres descontado |
| Él / Ella / Usted | hubiere descontado |
| Nosotros / as | hubiéremos descontado |
| Vosotros / as | hubiereis descontado |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | hubieren descontado |
| Vos | hubieres descontado |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | esté descontando |
| Tú | estés descontando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | esté descontando |
| Nosotros / as | estemos descontando |
| Vosotros / as | estéis descontando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estén descontando |
| Vos | estés descontando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviera descontando / estuviese descontando |
| Tú | estuvieras descontando / estuvieses descontando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviera descontando / estuviese descontando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéramos descontando / estuviésamos descontando |
| Vosotros / as | estuvierais descontando / estuvieseis descontando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviera descontando / estuviese descontando |
| Vos | estuvieras descontando / estuvieses descontando |
| Pronoun | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Yo | estuviere descontando |
| Tú | estuvieres descontando |
| Él / Ella / Usted | estuviere descontando |
| Nosotros / as | estuviéremos descontando |
| Vosotros / as | estuviereis descontando |
| Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes | estuviere descontando |
| Vos | estuvieres descontando |
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 descontás |
| Simle Past / Preterite Preterite de Indicativo | Vos descontaste |
| Imperfect Past Preterite Imperfecto de Indicativo | Vos descontabas |
| Conditional Condicional | Vos descontarías |
| Future Futuro de Indicativo | Vos descontarás |
| Present Subjunctive Presente de Subjunctivo | Vos descuentes |
| Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjunctivo | Vos descontaras / Vos descontase |
| Affirmative Imperative Imperativo | Vos descontá |
| Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo | Vos no descuentes |