Mostrar Conjugation: all tenses with charts
mostrar — to show
Present tense
muestro, muestras, muestra, mostramos, mostráis, muestran
Participle mostrado · gerund mostrando
mostrar — present
presente · What is true now, what happens regularly, and settled plans.
| yo | muestro |
| tú | muestras |
| él / ella / usted | muestra |
| nosotros | mostramos |
| vosotros | mostráis |
| ellos / ustedes | muestran |
mostrar — preterite
pretérito indefinido · A finished event that moves the story forward.
| yo | mostré |
| tú | mostraste |
| él / ella / usted | mostró |
| nosotros | mostramos |
| vosotros | mostrasteis |
| ellos / ustedes | mostraron |
mostrar — imperfect
pretérito imperfecto · Habits, background and description in the past.
| yo | mostraba |
| tú | mostrabas |
| él / ella / usted | mostraba |
| nosotros | mostrábamos |
| vosotros | mostrabais |
| ellos / ustedes | mostraban |
mostrar — future
futuro simple · What will happen — and guesses about what is happening now.
| yo | mostraré |
| tú | mostrarás |
| él / ella / usted | mostrará |
| nosotros | mostraremos |
| vosotros | mostraréis |
| ellos / ustedes | mostrarán |
mostrar — conditional
condicional simple · Would: polite requests and unreal situations.
| yo | mostraría |
| tú | mostrarías |
| él / ella / usted | mostraría |
| nosotros | mostraríamos |
| vosotros | mostraríais |
| ellos / ustedes | mostrarían |
mostrar — present subjunctive
presente de subjuntivo · After wish, doubt, emotion and necessity.
| yo | muestre |
| tú | muestres |
| él / ella / usted | muestre |
| nosotros | mostremos |
| vosotros | mostréis |
| ellos / ustedes | muestren |
mostrar — imperfect subjunctive
imperfecto de subjuntivo · Past-tense triggers and si clauses about the unreal.
| yo | mostrara |
| tú | mostraras |
| él / ella / usted | mostrara |
| nosotros | mostráramos |
| vosotros | mostrarais |
| ellos / ustedes | mostraran |
The -se forms mean exactly the same: mostrase, mostrases, mostrase…
mostrar — commands
imperativo · the negative forms come from the subjunctive, which is why they never match the affirmative ones.
| Person | Affirmative | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| tú | muestra | no muestres |
| él / ella / usted | muestre | no muestre |
| nosotros | mostremos | no mostremos |
| vosotros | mostrad | no mostréis |
| ellos / ustedes | muestren | no muestren |
mostrar — compound tenses
All of them are haber plus the participle mostrado — learn haber once and every compound tense comes free.
| Present perfect | he mostrado |
| Past perfect | había mostrado |
| Future perfect | habré mostrado |
| Conditional perfect | habría mostrado |
| Present perfect subjunctive | haya mostrado |
| Pluperfect subjunctive | hubiera mostrado |
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mostrar — yo · present
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