Non-finite forms
Infinitivo and Gerundio
| Form | Spanish | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Infinitivo | merendar | Dictionary form and base form for many compound structures. |
| Gerundio | merendando | Used with estar for progressive forms, for example estar merendando. |
Spanish verb conjugation
Merendar conjugation
merendar is an irregular Spanish -AR verb meaning have an afternoon snack. In the present tense: yo meriendo, tú meriendas, él/ella merienda, nosotros merendamos, vosotros merendáis, ellos meriendan. Full conjugation across 18 tenses below.
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At a glance
- Infinitive
- merendar
- Gerundio
- merendando
- Meaning
- have an afternoon snack
- Pattern
- Irregular
- Difficulty
- Level 1
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Merendar across the MuyVerbs tense system
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Presente
Present
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | meriendo | Yo meriendo tarde casi todos los días, porque el cuerpo piensa mucho mejor cuando no llega vacío a la noche.I have an afternoon snack late almost every day, because the body thinks much better when it does not arrive empty at night. |
| tú | meriendas | Tú meriendas poco, pero cuando lo haces eliges siempre algo que de verdad te calma y no solo te ocupa.You have only a small afternoon snack, but when you do, you always choose something that truly calms you and does not only occupy you. |
| él | merienda | Ese niño merienda mirando por la ventana, como si incluso el pan con chocolate necesitara también paisaje.That child has his afternoon snack while looking out the window, as if even bread with chocolate also needed a landscape. |
| nosotros | merendamos | Nosotros merendamos juntos después del trabajo y ese rato pequeño sostiene más de lo que parece.We have an afternoon snack together after work and that small time supports more than it seems. |
| vosotros | merendáis | Vosotros merendáis tarde en la oficina, aunque a veces el cuerpo os pide hacerlo mucho antes.You all have an afternoon snack late at the office, although sometimes the body asks you to do it much earlier. |
| ellos | meriendan | Ellos meriendan en la plaza al salir del colegio y el día parece por un rato menos urgente.They have an afternoon snack in the square when leaving school and for a while the day seems less urgent. |
Pretérito Perfecto
Present Perfect
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | he merendado | Yo he merendado ya y por eso ahora la tarde se sostiene con menos ansiedad y menos hambre ciega.I have already had my afternoon snack and that is why now the afternoon holds with less anxiety and less blind hunger. |
| tú | has merendado | Tú has merendado con calma y se nota que ya no entras a la noche con ese cansancio tan agresivo.You have had your afternoon snack calmly and it shows that you no longer enter the night with that so aggressive tiredness. |
| él | ha merendado | Ese niño ha merendado con sus abuelos y volvió a casa con una alegría muy concreta y muy simple.That child has had his afternoon snack with his grandparents and returned home with a very concrete and very simple joy. |
| nosotros | hemos merendado | Nosotros hemos merendado ya en la terraza y ahora el resto del trabajo pesa un poco menos.We have already had our afternoon snack on the terrace and now the rest of the work weighs a little less. |
| vosotros | habéis merendado | Vosotros habéis merendado juntos hoy y por eso la oficina ha respirado durante un rato menos como una máquina.You all have had an afternoon snack together today and that is why the office breathed for a while less like a machine. |
| ellos | han merendado | Ellos han merendado después del entrenamiento y el cuerpo ya no les pide de forma tan brusca cualquier cosa rápida.They have had an afternoon snack after training and the body no longer asks them so abruptly for just anything quick. |
Pretérito Indefinido
Preterite
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | merendé | Ayer merendé demasiado tarde y luego la cena llegó al cuerpo ya sin ritmo limpio.Yesterday I had my afternoon snack too late and later dinner reached the body without a clean rhythm. |
| tú | merendaste | Tú merendaste en el parque con una tranquilidad que cambió más el día que muchas decisiones grandes.You had your afternoon snack in the park with a calm that changed the day more than many big decisions. |
| él | merendó | Ese niño merendó pan y fruta en silencio y después volvió a jugar como si el mundo se hubiera recolocado un poco.That child had bread and fruit for his afternoon snack in silence and afterward went back to playing as if the world had rearranged itself a little. |
| nosotros | merendamos | Nosotros merendamos juntos antes de seguir trabajando y eso evitó bastante mal humor inútil al final.We had our afternoon snack together before continuing to work and that avoided quite a lot of useless bad temper at the end. |
| vosotros | merendasteis | Vosotros merendasteis tarde otra vez y el cuerpo os pidió luego la cena con una prisa nada amable.You all had your afternoon snack late again and the body later asked you for dinner with a very unkind haste. |
| ellos | merendaron | Ellos merendaron en la plaza al salir del colegio y por un momento toda la tarde tuvo una forma más lenta.They had their afternoon snack in the square when leaving school and for a moment the whole afternoon had a slower shape. |
Pretérito Imperfecto
Imperfect
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | merendaba | Antes merendaba siempre a las cinco, como si el cuerpo tuviera todavía una disciplina más clara que ahora.Before, I always used to have my afternoon snack at five, as if the body still had a clearer discipline than now. |
| tú | merendabas | Tú merendabas con tus hermanos al volver del colegio y aquel rato ordenaba la tarde sin necesidad de decirlo mucho.You used to have your afternoon snack with your siblings on returning from school and that time ordered the afternoon without needing to say it much. |
| él | merendaba | Ese niño merendaba en la cocina mientras su madre preparaba todo con una calma ya casi antigua.That child used to have his afternoon snack in the kitchen while his mother prepared everything with a calm now almost old-fashioned. |
| nosotros | merendábamos | Nosotros merendábamos juntos después del trabajo y esa pausa pequeña evitaba que llegáramos ya rotos a la noche.We used to have our afternoon snack together after work and that small pause kept us from arriving already broken to the night. |
| vosotros | merendabais | Vosotros merendabais a media tarde en la oficina, aunque casi siempre seguíais comiendo como quien no quiere interrumpirse.You all used to have your afternoon snack in mid-afternoon at the office, although almost always you kept eating like people who do not want to interrupt themselves. |
| ellos | merendaban | Ellos merendaban en la plaza cada viernes y por eso la semana terminaba con otro tono menos seco.They used to have their afternoon snack in the square every Friday and that is why the week ended with another less dry tone. |
Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto
Past Perfect
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | había merendado | Cuando llegó la noche, yo ya había merendado y por eso el hambre no me empujó luego a comer con ansiedad.When night arrived, I had already had my afternoon snack and that is why hunger did not later push me to eat anxiously. |
| tú | habías merendado | Tú ya habías merendado antes de salir, pero aun así el cuerpo seguía pidiendo también otra clase de descanso.You had already had your afternoon snack before leaving, but even so the body still asked also for another kind of rest. |
| él | había merendado | Ese niño ya había merendado cuando empezó a llover y por eso el encierro de después tuvo un humor bastante más suave.That child had already had his afternoon snack when it began to rain and that is why the confinement afterward had a much softer mood. |
| nosotros | habíamos merendado | Nosotros ya habíamos merendado en la oficina antes de descubrir que la tarde iba a alargarse mucho más de lo previsto.We had already had our afternoon snack in the office before discovering that the afternoon was going to stretch much longer than expected. |
| vosotros | habíais merendado | Vosotros ya habíais merendado cuando entendisteis que el problema no era solo hambre, sino agotamiento acumulado.You all had already had your afternoon snack when you understood that the problem was not only hunger, but accumulated exhaustion. |
| ellos | habían merendado | Ellos ya habían merendado al salir del colegio y luego caminaron a casa con una calma mucho menos áspera.They had already had their afternoon snack on leaving school and then walked home with a much less rough calm. |
Pretérito Anterior
Preterite Anterior
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | hube merendado | Apenas hube merendado, sentí que la tarde dejaba de ser una pendiente tan agresiva hacia la noche.As soon as I had had my afternoon snack, I felt that the afternoon stopped being such an aggressive slope toward the night. |
| tú | hubiste merendado | Cuando hubiste merendado en el parque, entendiste que no era solo comida lo que te estaba faltando, sino también pausa.When you had had your afternoon snack in the park, you understood that it was not only food that had been lacking, but also pause. |
| él | hubo merendado | Cuando ese niño hubo merendado, la casa recuperó de pronto un orden muy sencillo y muy viejo.When that child had had his afternoon snack, the house suddenly recovered a very simple and very old order. |
| nosotros | hubimos merendado | Cuando hubimos merendado juntos, el trabajo volvió a parecer difícil pero ya no insoportable.When we had had our afternoon snack together, work again seemed difficult but no longer unbearable. |
| vosotros | hubisteis merendado | hubisteis merendado antes de la reunión larga y por eso el cuerpo os sostuvo luego con bastante más paciencia.You all had had your afternoon snack before the long meeting and that is why later the body sustained you with quite a lot more patience. |
| ellos | hubieron merendado | Ellos hubieron merendado cuando aún no sabían que la tarde iba a pedirles después tanta energía.They had had their afternoon snack when they still did not know that the afternoon was later going to ask them for so much energy. |
Futuro
Future
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | merendaré | Yo merendaré antes hoy, porque no quiero llegar otra vez a la noche con el cuerpo ya torcido por hambre y cansancio.I will have my afternoon snack earlier today, because I do not want to arrive again to the night with the body already twisted by hunger and tiredness. |
| tú | merendarás | Tú merendarás en casa mañana si por fin sales a tiempo y no conviertes otra vez la tarde en puro aguante.You will have your afternoon snack at home tomorrow if you finally leave on time and do not turn the afternoon once again into pure endurance. |
| él | merendará | Ese niño merendará con su abuelo y seguramente el rato importará tanto como la comida misma.That child will have his afternoon snack with his grandfather and surely the time will matter as much as the food itself. |
| nosotros | merendaremos | Nosotros merendaremos juntos después del trabajo si queremos que la noche no empiece ya rota.We will have our afternoon snack together after work if we want the night not to begin already broken. |
| vosotros | merendaréis | Vosotros merendaréis más temprano cuando dejéis de tratar la pausa como si fuera una pérdida de tiempo.You all will have your afternoon snack earlier when you stop treating pause as if it were a waste of time. |
| ellos | merendarán | Ellos merendarán al salir del colegio y eso les quitará bastante ansiedad inútil hasta la cena.They will have their afternoon snack on leaving school and that will take away quite a lot of useless anxiety until dinner. |
Futuro Perfecto
Future Perfect
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | habré merendado | Para entonces, yo habré merendado ya y la noche no tendrá que empezar otra vez con esa urgencia tan poco amable.By then, I will already have had my afternoon snack and the night will not have to begin again with that very unkind urgency. |
| tú | habrás merendado | Para la noche, tú habrás merendado en casa y quizá el cuerpo llegue por fin menos alterado a la cena.By night, you will have had your afternoon snack at home and perhaps the body will finally arrive less upset to dinner. |
| él | habrá merendado | Ese niño habrá merendado ya con su abuela y después toda la tarde tendrá una textura mucho más amable.That child will already have had his afternoon snack with his grandmother and afterward the whole afternoon will have a much kinder texture. |
| nosotros | habremos merendado | Para esa fecha, nosotros habremos merendado ya en la oficina y el resto del día pesará menos sobre el humor del grupo.By that time, we will already have had our afternoon snack in the office and the rest of the day will weigh less on the group's mood. |
| vosotros | habréis merendado | Para entonces, vosotros habréis merendado a una hora más humana si por fin habéis aprendido a respetar ese hueco pequeño.By then, you all will have had your afternoon snack at a more human hour if you have finally learned to respect that small space. |
| ellos | habrán merendado | Ellos habrán merendado ya al volver del colegio y por eso la tarde no se les romperá tan pronto en hambre y nervio.They will already have had their afternoon snack on coming back from school and that is why the afternoon will not break so soon for them into hunger and nervousness. |
Condicional
Conditional
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | merendaría | Yo merendaría mejor si dejara de posponer tanto esa pausa mínima como si no importara.I would have my afternoon snack better if I stopped postponing so much that minimal pause as if it did not matter. |
| tú | merendarías | Tú merendarías antes si escucharas un poco más al cuerpo y un poco menos al reloj de la oficina.You would have your afternoon snack earlier if you listened a little more to the body and a little less to the office clock. |
| él | merendaría | Ese niño merendaría mejor si la tarde no le llegara ya tan llena de pantallas y prisas.That child would have his afternoon snack better if the afternoon did not already arrive to him so full of screens and haste. |
| nosotros | merendaríamos | Nosotros merendaríamos con más calma si no siguiéramos viviendo la pausa como si fuera un lujo culpable.We would have our afternoon snack with more calm if we did not keep living pause as if it were a guilty luxury. |
| vosotros | merendaríais | Vosotros merendaríais mejor si aceptaseis que una pausa pequeña sostiene a veces más que otro café rápido.You all would have your afternoon snack better if you accepted that a small pause sometimes sustains more than another quick coffee. |
| ellos | merendarían | Ellos merendarían antes si el colegio no los soltara siempre ya tan vacíos y tan tarde.They would have their afternoon snack earlier if school did not always release them already so empty and so late. |
Condicional Perfecto
Conditional Perfect
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | habría merendado | Yo habría merendado mejor ayer si hubiera escuchado antes que el cuerpo ya iba demasiado vacío hacia la noche.I would have had my afternoon snack better yesterday if I had listened earlier that the body was already going too empty toward the night. |
| tú | habrías merendado | Tú habrías merendado antes si hubieras dejado de tratar la pausa como una pérdida de productividad.You would have had your afternoon snack earlier if you had stopped treating pause as a loss of productivity. |
| él | habría merendado | Ese niño habría merendado mejor si la tarde hubiera llegado menos cargada de cansancio y más abierta al juego.That child would have had his afternoon snack better if the afternoon had arrived less loaded with tiredness and more open to play. |
| nosotros | habríamos merendado | Nosotros habríamos merendado con más calma si hubiéramos protegido antes ese hueco pequeño del resto del ruido.We would have had our afternoon snack more calmly if we had protected earlier that small space from the rest of the noise. |
| vosotros | habríais merendado | Vosotros habríais merendado mejor si hubierais entendido antes que el cuerpo no aguanta limpio hasta la noche solo con impulso.You all would have had your afternoon snack better if you had understood earlier that the body does not sustain cleanly until night only through impulse. |
| ellos | habrían merendado | Ellos habrían merendado antes si el horario no hubiera ido empujándolo todo hacia una tarde cada vez más rota.They would have had their afternoon snack earlier if the schedule had not been pushing everything toward an increasingly more broken afternoon. |
Subjuntivo Presente
Present Subjunctive
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | meriende | Es importante que yo meriende antes hoy, para no volver a cenar ya con el cuerpo a la defensiva.It is important that I have my afternoon snack earlier today, so as not to have dinner again with the body already on the defensive. |
| tú | meriendes | Conviene que tú meriendes con algo simple y real, y no con cualquier cosa que solo tape el vacío un rato.It is advisable that you have your afternoon snack with something simple and real, and not with just anything that only covers the emptiness for a while. |
| él | meriende | Es lógico que ese niño meriende al salir del colegio, si llega a casa ya demasiado lejos del almuerzo.It is logical that that child have his afternoon snack on leaving school if he arrives home already too far from lunch. |
| nosotros | merendemos | Es mejor que nosotros merendemos juntos y no sigamos entrando a la noche ya tan tensos y vacíos.It is better that we have our afternoon snack together and not keep entering the night already so tense and empty. |
| vosotros | merendéis | Nadie quiere que vosotros merendéis tan tarde que luego la cena os caiga ya sin ritmo ni medida.Nobody wants you all to have your afternoon snack so late that later dinner falls on you without rhythm or measure. |
| ellos | merienden | Me gusta que ellos merienden en la plaza, porque ese rato les devuelve una forma menos cerrada de estar juntos.I like that they have their afternoon snack in the square, because that time gives them back a less closed way of being together. |
Subjuntivo Pretérito Perfecto
Present Perfect Subjunctive
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | haya merendado | Espero que yo haya merendado ya y que la noche no tenga que empezar otra vez con esa mezcla torpe de hambre y ansiedad.I hope that I have already had my afternoon snack and that the night does not have to begin again with that clumsy mixture of hunger and anxiety. |
| tú | hayas merendado | Ojalá tú hayas merendado con calma y ahora el cuerpo ya no llegue tan roto al final del día.Hopefully you have had your afternoon snack calmly and now the body no longer arrives so broken at the end of the day. |
| él | haya merendado | Dudo que ese niño haya merendado bien si sigue saliendo del colegio ya tan cargado de cansancio y ruido.I doubt that that child has had his afternoon snack well if he keeps leaving school already so loaded with tiredness and noise. |
| nosotros | hayamos merendado | Espero que nosotros hayamos merendado ya juntos y que eso haya evitado parte del mal humor inútil de esta tarde larga.I hope that we have already had our afternoon snack together and that that has avoided part of the useless bad temper of this long afternoon. |
| vosotros | hayáis merendado | Ojalá vosotros no hayáis merendado tan tarde que ahora la cena tenga que corregir un desorden innecesario.Hopefully you all have not had your afternoon snack so late that now dinner has to correct an unnecessary disorder. |
| ellos | hayan merendado | Es posible que ellos hayan merendado ya al salir del colegio y por eso ahora jueguen con un humor mucho más limpio.It is possible that they have already had their afternoon snack on leaving school and that is why now they play with a much cleaner mood. |
Subjuntivo Pretérito Imperfecto
Imperfect Subjunctive
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | merendara | Si yo merendara antes, llegaría a la noche con bastante menos ansiedad y bastante más cuerpo.If I had my afternoon snack earlier, I would arrive to the night with much less anxiety and much more body. |
| tú | merendaras | Si tú merendaras con más calma, la tarde dejaría de parecerte un simple tramo que hay que aguantar.If you had your afternoon snack more calmly, the afternoon would stop seeming to you like a simple stretch that has to be endured. |
| él | merendara | Ese niño merendara mejor si la merienda no llegara siempre después de una jornada tan saturada.That child would have his afternoon snack better if it did not always arrive after such a saturated day. |
| nosotros | merendáramos | Si nosotros merendáramos juntos más a menudo, el final del día tendría un tono menos seco.If we had our afternoon snack together more often, the end of the day would have a less dry tone. |
| vosotros | merendarais | Si vosotros merendarais más temprano, el cuerpo os pediría después menos soluciones rápidas y torpes.If you all had your afternoon snack earlier, the body would later ask you for fewer quick and clumsy solutions. |
| ellos | merendaran | Si ellos merendaran al salir del colegio, entrarían a casa con menos hambre agresiva y menos nervio inútil.If they had their afternoon snack on leaving school, they would enter home with less aggressive hunger and less useless nervousness. |
Subjuntivo Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto
Past Perfect Subjunctive
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | hubiera merendado | Si yo hubiera merendado antes ayer, ahora no recordaría aquella noche como una carrera torpe contra el hambre.If I had had my afternoon snack earlier yesterday, I would not now remember that night as a clumsy race against hunger. |
| tú | hubieras merendado | Tú hubieras merendado mejor si hubieras dejado antes de tratar esa pausa como si fuera opcional y secundaria.You would have had your afternoon snack better if you had stopped earlier treating that pause as if it were optional and secondary. |
| él | hubiera merendado | Ese niño hubiera merendado con más calma si la tarde no hubiera llegado ya tan saturada de estímulos.That child would have had his afternoon snack more calmly if the afternoon had not already arrived so saturated with stimuli. |
| nosotros | hubiéramos merendado | Nosotros hubiéramos merendado mejor si hubiéramos protegido antes ese rato pequeño del resto del trabajo y del ruido.We would have had our afternoon snack better if we had protected earlier that small time from the rest of the work and noise. |
| vosotros | hubierais merendado | Vosotros hubierais merendado antes si hubierais entendido antes que el cuerpo ya no llegaba limpio hasta la cena.You all would have had your afternoon snack earlier if you had understood earlier that the body was no longer arriving cleanly until dinner. |
| ellos | hubieran merendado | Ellos hubieran merendado mejor si el horario no hubiera apretado la tarde hasta volverla ya casi inhabitable.They would have had their afternoon snack better if the schedule had not squeezed the afternoon until it became almost uninhabitable. |
Subjuntivo Futuro
Future Subjunctive
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | merendare | Si yo merendare mañana antes, entraré a la noche con mucho menos desorden corporal.If I have my afternoon snack earlier tomorrow, I will enter the night with much less bodily disorder. |
| tú | merendares | Cuando tú merendares, intenta que ese rato sea también una pausa real y no solo comida rápida.When you have your afternoon snack, try to make that time also a real pause and not only quick food. |
| él | merendare | El niño que merendare mañana con calma llegará después a los deberes con una cabeza mucho menos rota.The child who has his afternoon snack calmly tomorrow will afterward arrive at homework with a much less broken head. |
| nosotros | merendáremos | Si nosotros merendáremos juntos esta semana, quizá recuperemos una forma menos seca de cerrar la tarde.If we have our afternoon snack together this week, perhaps we will recover a less dry way of closing the afternoon. |
| vosotros | merendareis | Si vosotros merendareis más temprano, veréis cómo cambia luego incluso el humor del final del día.If you all have your afternoon snack earlier, you will see how even the mood at the end of the day later changes. |
| ellos | merendaren | Ellos que merendaren mañana al salir del colegio evitarán una parte grande del nervio innecesario.Those who have their afternoon snack tomorrow on leaving school will avoid a large part of unnecessary nervousness. |
Subjuntivo Futuro Perfecto
Future Perfect Subjunctive
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | hubiere merendado | Cuando yo hubiere merendado ya y la ansiedad siga igual, entenderé que no era solo hambre lo que estaba desordenando la tarde.When I have already had my afternoon snack and anxiety remains the same, I will understand that it was not only hunger that was disordering the afternoon. |
| tú | hubieres merendado | Cuando tú hubieres merendado con calma y el cuerpo siga tenso, verás que la pausa pedía también otra calidad interior.When you have had your afternoon snack calmly and the body remains tense, you will see that the pause also asked for another inner quality. |
| él | hubiere merendado | Cuando ese niño hubiere merendado ya y siga llegando roto a la noche, sabrán que el problema venía también de toda la tarde anterior.When that child has already had his afternoon snack and keeps arriving broken to the night, they will know that the problem was also coming from the whole previous afternoon. |
| nosotros | hubiéremos merendado | Cuando nosotros hubiéremos merendado ya juntos y el cansancio siga áspero, entenderemos que no bastaba con comida, sino que faltaba también descanso real.When we have already had our afternoon snack together and tiredness remains rough, we will understand that food was not enough, but that real rest was also lacking. |
| vosotros | hubiereis merendado | Cuando vosotros hubiereis merendado tarde otra vez y la cena siga desordenada, veréis que el cuerpo os estaba pidiendo otro ritmo entero.When you all have had your afternoon snack late again and dinner remains disordered, you will see that the body was asking you for another whole rhythm. |
| ellos | hubieren merendado | Cuando ellos hubieren merendado ya al salir del colegio y el nervio siga igual, comprenderán que una parte del problema estaba también en el peso del día entero.When they have already had their afternoon snack on leaving school and the nervousness remains the same, they will understand that one part of the problem was also in the weight of the whole day. |
Imperativo Afirmativo
Affirmative Imperative
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | - | - |
| tú | merienda | merienda antes hoy y deja que la noche no empiece ya con el cuerpo completamente vacío.Have your afternoon snack earlier today and let the night not begin with the body already completely empty. |
| él | meriende | meriende si quiere el niño con calma, pero que no conviertan ese rato pequeño en otra prisa más.Let the child have his afternoon snack calmly if he wants, but let them not turn that small time into just another hurry. |
| nosotros | merendemos | merendemos juntos y dejemos que la tarde tenga también una pausa digna antes de romperse en la noche.Let us have our afternoon snack together and let the afternoon also have a dignified pause before breaking into night. |
| vosotros | merendad | merendad más temprano y comprobad cuánto cambia después incluso el tono con que llegáis a la cena.Have your afternoon snack earlier and see how much later even the tone with which you arrive at dinner changes. |
| ellos | merienden | merienden si hace falta al salir del colegio, pero que no lleguen a casa ya completamente vencidos por el hambre.Let them have their afternoon snack on leaving school if necessary, but let them not arrive home already completely defeated by hunger. |
Imperativo Negativo
Negative Imperative
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | - | - |
| tú | no meriendes | No no meriendes tan tarde como si el cuerpo no fuera a cobrarte después toda esa espera.Do not have your afternoon snack so late as if the body were not afterward going to charge you for all that waiting. |
| él | no meriende | No no meriende si todavía quiere llegar a la noche sin esa mezcla torpe de vacío y ansiedad.Do not let him have his afternoon snack late if he still wants to arrive at night without that clumsy mixture of emptiness and anxiety. |
| nosotros | no merendemos | No no merendemos deprisa y de pie como si esta pausa pequeña no mereciera también un poco de forma.Let us not have our afternoon snack in a hurry and standing as if this small pause did not also deserve a little form. |
| vosotros | no merendéis | No no merendéis tan tarde que después la cena tenga que arreglar lo que la tarde entera ya desordenó.Do not have your afternoon snack so late that afterward dinner has to fix what the whole afternoon already disordered. |
| ellos | no merienden | No no merienden como si solo se tratara de llenar rápido el cuerpo y no también de darle un respiro.Do not let them have their afternoon snack as if it were only about quickly filling the body and not also giving it a breath. |
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Presente•yo
Yo ___ tarde casi todos los días, porque el cuerpo piensa mucho mejor cuando no llega vacío a la noche.
I have an afternoon snack late almost every day, because the body thinks much better when it does not arrive empty at night.
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Use Presente for facts, habits, current states, and regular actions.
Formation
- 1Remove the infinitive ending: -ar, -er, or -ir.
- 2Add the present endings for the subject.
- 3Watch high-frequency irregulars like ser, estar, ir, tener, hacer, and decir.
Pattern
-ar: o, as, a, amos, áis, an-er: o, es, e, emos, éis, en-ir: o, es, e, imos, ís, en
Examples
hablar -> yo hablocomer -> él comevivir -> vosotros vivís
Presente is the base system. Master the endings first, then handle irregular yo forms and stem changes.
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- What does 'merendar' mean in English?
- In Spanish, 'merendar' means to have an afternoon snack. It is a irregular -AR verb used across all 18 standard Spanish tenses.
- Is merendar an irregular verb in Spanish?
- Yes, merendar is an irregular Spanish verb. It does not follow the regular -AR ending pattern in every tense — some forms change stem or use unique endings. The complete conjugation table on this page shows every irregular form.
- How do you conjugate merendar in the present tense?
- Present tense (Presente) of merendar: yo meriendo, tú meriendas, él/ella/usted merienda, nosotros merendamos, vosotros merendáis, ellos/ellas/ustedes meriendan.
- How do you conjugate merendar in the preterite?
- Preterite (Pretérito Indefinido) of merendar: yo merendé, tú merendaste, él/ella/usted merendó, nosotros merendamos, vosotros merendasteis, ellos/ellas/ustedes merendaron. This tense expresses completed past actions at a defined point in time.
- What is the imperfect tense of merendar?
- Imperfect (Pretérito Imperfecto) of merendar: yo merendaba, tú merendabas, él/ella/usted merendaba, nosotros merendábamos, vosotros merendabais, ellos/ellas/ustedes merendaban. The imperfect describes past habits, ongoing actions, and background states.
- What is the past participle of merendar?
- The past participle of merendar is 'merendado'. It is used to form compound tenses with the auxiliary verb haber — for example, 'he merendado' (I have have an afternoon snacked), 'has merendado', 'ha merendado'.
- What is the gerundio (present participle) of merendar?
- The gerundio of merendar is 'merendando'. It pairs with estar to form the present continuous (estoy merendando) and other progressive tenses, indicating an action in progress.
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