pontificar
Spanish
Verb
pontificar (first-person singular present pontifico, first-person singular preterite pontifiqué, past participle pontificado)
- to pontificate
- to orate
Conjugation
Conjugation of pontificar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | pontificar | ||||||
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gerund | pontificando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | pontificado | pontificada | |||||
plural | pontificados | pontificadas | |||||
singular | plural | ||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
indicative | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | pontifico | pontificastú pontificásvos | pontifica | pontificamos | pontificáis | pontifican | |
imperfect | pontificaba | pontificabas | pontificaba | pontificábamos | pontificabais | pontificaban | |
preterite | pontifiqué | pontificaste | pontificó | pontificamos | pontificasteis | pontificaron | |
future | pontificaré | pontificarás | pontificará | pontificaremos | pontificaréis | pontificarán | |
conditional | pontificaría | pontificarías | pontificaría | pontificaríamos | pontificaríais | pontificarían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos | él/ella/ello usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | pontifique | pontifiquestú pontifiquésvos2 | pontifique | pontifiquemos | pontifiquéis | pontifiquen | |
imperfect (ra) | pontificara | pontificaras | pontificara | pontificáramos | pontificarais | pontificaran | |
imperfect (se) | pontificase | pontificases | pontificase | pontificásemos | pontificaseis | pontificasen | |
future1 | pontificare | pontificares | pontificare | pontificáremos | pontificareis | pontificaren | |
imperative | — | tú vos | usted | nosotros nosotras | vosotros vosotras | ustedes | |
affirmative | pontificatú pontificávos | pontifique | pontifiquemos | pontificad | pontifiquen | ||
negative | no pontifiques | no pontifique | no pontifiquemos | no pontifiquéis | no pontifiquen |
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Further reading
- “pontificar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014