Cerrar Conjugation: all tenses with charts
cerrar — to close
Present tense
cierro, cierras, cierra, cerramos, cerráis, cierran
Participle cerrado · gerund cerrando
cerrar — present
presente · What is true now, what happens regularly, and settled plans.
| yo | cierro |
| tú | cierras |
| él / ella / usted | cierra |
| nosotros | cerramos |
| vosotros | cerráis |
| ellos / ustedes | cierran |
cerrar — preterite
pretérito indefinido · A finished event that moves the story forward.
| yo | cerré |
| tú | cerraste |
| él / ella / usted | cerró |
| nosotros | cerramos |
| vosotros | cerrasteis |
| ellos / ustedes | cerraron |
cerrar — imperfect
pretérito imperfecto · Habits, background and description in the past.
| yo | cerraba |
| tú | cerrabas |
| él / ella / usted | cerraba |
| nosotros | cerrábamos |
| vosotros | cerrabais |
| ellos / ustedes | cerraban |
cerrar — future
futuro simple · What will happen — and guesses about what is happening now.
| yo | cerraré |
| tú | cerrarás |
| él / ella / usted | cerrará |
| nosotros | cerraremos |
| vosotros | cerraréis |
| ellos / ustedes | cerrarán |
cerrar — conditional
condicional simple · Would: polite requests and unreal situations.
| yo | cerraría |
| tú | cerrarías |
| él / ella / usted | cerraría |
| nosotros | cerraríamos |
| vosotros | cerraríais |
| ellos / ustedes | cerrarían |
cerrar — present subjunctive
presente de subjuntivo · After wish, doubt, emotion and necessity.
| yo | cierre |
| tú | cierres |
| él / ella / usted | cierre |
| nosotros | cerremos |
| vosotros | cerréis |
| ellos / ustedes | cierren |
cerrar — imperfect subjunctive
imperfecto de subjuntivo · Past-tense triggers and si clauses about the unreal.
| yo | cerrara |
| tú | cerraras |
| él / ella / usted | cerrara |
| nosotros | cerráramos |
| vosotros | cerrarais |
| ellos / ustedes | cerraran |
The -se forms mean exactly the same: cerrase, cerrases, cerrase…
cerrar — commands
imperativo · the negative forms come from the subjunctive, which is why they never match the affirmative ones.
| Person | Affirmative | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| tú | cierra | no cierres |
| él / ella / usted | cierre | no cierre |
| nosotros | cerremos | no cerremos |
| vosotros | cerrad | no cerréis |
| ellos / ustedes | cierren | no cierren |
cerrar — compound tenses
All of them are haber plus the participle cerrado — learn haber once and every compound tense comes free.
| Present perfect | he cerrado |
| Past perfect | había cerrado |
| Future perfect | habré cerrado |
| Conditional perfect | habría cerrado |
| Present perfect subjunctive | haya cerrado |
| Pluperfect subjunctive | hubiera cerrado |
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cerrar — yo · present
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