Recordar Conjugation: all tenses with charts
recordar — to remember
Present tense
recuerdo, recuerdas, recuerda, recordamos, recordáis, recuerdan
Participle recordado · gerund recordando
recordar — present
presente · What is true now, what happens regularly, and settled plans.
| yo | recuerdo |
| tú | recuerdas |
| él / ella / usted | recuerda |
| nosotros | recordamos |
| vosotros | recordáis |
| ellos / ustedes | recuerdan |
recordar — preterite
pretérito indefinido · A finished event that moves the story forward.
| yo | recordé |
| tú | recordaste |
| él / ella / usted | recordó |
| nosotros | recordamos |
| vosotros | recordasteis |
| ellos / ustedes | recordaron |
recordar — imperfect
pretérito imperfecto · Habits, background and description in the past.
| yo | recordaba |
| tú | recordabas |
| él / ella / usted | recordaba |
| nosotros | recordábamos |
| vosotros | recordabais |
| ellos / ustedes | recordaban |
recordar — future
futuro simple · What will happen — and guesses about what is happening now.
| yo | recordaré |
| tú | recordarás |
| él / ella / usted | recordará |
| nosotros | recordaremos |
| vosotros | recordaréis |
| ellos / ustedes | recordarán |
recordar — conditional
condicional simple · Would: polite requests and unreal situations.
| yo | recordaría |
| tú | recordarías |
| él / ella / usted | recordaría |
| nosotros | recordaríamos |
| vosotros | recordaríais |
| ellos / ustedes | recordarían |
recordar — present subjunctive
presente de subjuntivo · After wish, doubt, emotion and necessity.
| yo | recuerde |
| tú | recuerdes |
| él / ella / usted | recuerde |
| nosotros | recordemos |
| vosotros | recordéis |
| ellos / ustedes | recuerden |
recordar — imperfect subjunctive
imperfecto de subjuntivo · Past-tense triggers and si clauses about the unreal.
| yo | recordara |
| tú | recordaras |
| él / ella / usted | recordara |
| nosotros | recordáramos |
| vosotros | recordarais |
| ellos / ustedes | recordaran |
The -se forms mean exactly the same: recordase, recordases, recordase…
recordar — commands
imperativo · the negative forms come from the subjunctive, which is why they never match the affirmative ones.
| Person | Affirmative | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| tú | recuerda | no recuerdes |
| él / ella / usted | recuerde | no recuerde |
| nosotros | recordemos | no recordemos |
| vosotros | recordad | no recordéis |
| ellos / ustedes | recuerden | no recuerden |
recordar — compound tenses
All of them are haber plus the participle recordado — learn haber once and every compound tense comes free.
| Present perfect | he recordado |
| Past perfect | había recordado |
| Future perfect | habré recordado |
| Conditional perfect | habría recordado |
| Present perfect subjunctive | haya recordado |
| Pluperfect subjunctive | hubiera recordado |
Conjugate it yourself
Type the form — these are the cells people get wrong most often.
recordar — yo · present
A chart you read once is a chart you forget
Trazo puts recordar into spaced repetition and brings it back exactly when you are about to lose it — next to the grammar and the sentences from your own lessons.