Non-finite forms
Infinitivo and Gerundio
| Form | Spanish | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Infinitivo | opinar | Dictionary form and base form for many compound structures. |
| Gerundio | opinando | Used with estar for progressive forms, for example estar opinando. |
opinar is a regular Spanish -AR verb meaning opine / think / give an opinion. In the present tense: yo opino, tú opinas, él/ella opina, nosotros opinamos, vosotros opináis, ellos opinan. Full conjugation across 18 tenses below.
Infinitivo and Gerundio
| Form | Spanish | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Infinitivo | opinar | Dictionary form and base form for many compound structures. |
| Gerundio | opinando | Used with estar for progressive forms, for example estar opinando. |
Present
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | opino | Yo opino mejor cuando no siento la obligación de tener ya una conclusión impecable.I give my opinion better when I do not feel the obligation to already have an impeccable conclusion. |
| tú | opinas | Tú opinas con mucha firmeza, aunque a veces todavía demasiado pronto para haber escuchado del todo.You give your opinion with great firmness, although sometimes still too early to have listened completely. |
| él | opina | Ese profesor opina sin aplastar a nadie, como si pensar con claridad no exigiera humillar al otro.That professor gives his opinion without crushing anyone, as if thinking clearly did not require humiliating the other. |
| nosotros | opinamos | Nosotros opinamos mejor cuando dejamos de confundir velocidad con lucidez y postura con verdad.We give our opinion better when we stop confusing speed with lucidity and stance with truth. |
| vosotros | opináis | Vosotros opináis con mucha energía, pero a veces demasiado poco aire para el matiz ajeno.You all give your opinion with a lot of energy, but sometimes too little air for someone else's nuance. |
| ellos | opinan | Ellos opinan sobre todo, aunque no siempre desde una lectura igual de profunda de lo que juzgan.They give their opinion about everything, although not always from an equally deep reading of what they judge. |
Present Perfect
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | he opinado | Yo he opinado ya sobre este tema y ahora prefiero escuchar qué parte se me había quedado fuera.I have already given my opinion on this topic and now I prefer to listen to what part had remained outside me. |
| tú | has opinado | Tú has opinado con mucha claridad y por eso ya no se puede fingir que el desacuerdo no existe.You have given your opinion with great clarity and that is why it can no longer be pretended that disagreement does not exist. |
| él | ha opinado | Ese profesor ha opinado ya y ha dejado la sala más despierta, aunque también un poco más incómoda.That professor has already given his opinion and has left the room more awake, although also a little more uncomfortable. |
| nosotros | hemos opinado | Nosotros hemos opinado demasiado rápido y ahora toca revisar cuánto de esa seguridad era solo prisa.We have given our opinion too quickly and now it is time to review how much of that certainty was only haste. |
| vosotros | habéis opinado | Vosotros habéis opinado ya y por eso ahora la conversación debe demostrar si sabe sostener matices reales.You all have already given your opinion and that is why now the conversation must show whether it knows how to sustain real nuances. |
| ellos | han opinado | Ellos han opinado con mucha seguridad, aunque todavía no queda claro si también han leído bien el fondo.They have given their opinion with great confidence, although it still is not clear whether they have also read the depth well. |
Preterite
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | opiné | Ayer opiné demasiado pronto y luego tuve que desarmar con paciencia una certeza mal construida.Yesterday I gave my opinion too soon and later had to dismantle with patience a badly constructed certainty. |
| tú | opinaste | Tú opinaste con honestidad, aunque el momento no era todavía el más habitable para esa verdad.You gave your opinion honestly, although the moment was not yet the most habitable for that truth. |
| él | opinó | Ese profesor opinó al final y bastó una frase suya para reorganizar toda la discusión.That professor gave his opinion at the end and one sentence of his was enough to reorganize the whole discussion. |
| nosotros | opinamos | Nosotros opinamos sin escucharnos del todo y por eso el debate nació ya un poco torcido.We gave our opinion without fully listening to one another and that is why the debate was born already somewhat crooked. |
| vosotros | opinasteis | Vosotros opinasteis con mucha fuerza y luego os costó volver a entrar en un terreno menos rígido.You all gave your opinion with great force and later it cost you to re-enter a less rigid terrain. |
| ellos | opinaron | Ellos opinaron sobre todo de inmediato y solo después descubrieron cuánto faltaba todavía por comprender.They gave their opinion about everything immediately and only afterward discovered how much still remained to be understood. |
Imperfect
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | opinaba | Antes opinaba demasiado rápido, como si pensar en voz alta y decidir fueran exactamente la misma cosa.Before, I used to give my opinion too quickly, as if thinking aloud and deciding were exactly the same thing. |
| tú | opinabas | Tú opinabas con más dureza que claridad, aunque creías estar siendo simplemente directo.You used to give your opinion with more harshness than clarity, although you believed you were simply being direct. |
| él | opinaba | Ese profesor opinaba con calma y por eso incluso el desacuerdo sonaba menos hostil.That professor used to give his opinion calmly and that is why even disagreement sounded less hostile. |
| nosotros | opinábamos | Nosotros opinábamos sobre todo muy pronto, antes de que la lectura real hubiera terminado de formarse.We used to give our opinion about everything very soon, before the real reading had finished forming. |
| vosotros | opinabais | Vosotros opinabais con energía, aunque no siempre con espacio suficiente para revisar después.You all used to give your opinion with energy, although not always with enough space to review afterward. |
| ellos | opinaban | Ellos opinaban sin freno, como si la abundancia de juicio pudiera sustituir la profundidad de lectura.They used to give their opinion without restraint, as if an abundance of judgment could substitute for depth of reading. |
Past Perfect
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | había opinado | Cuando quise matizar, yo ya había opinado y la frase inicial seguía pesando demasiado sobre todo lo demás.When I wanted to nuance, I had already given my opinion and the initial phrase still weighed too much on everything else. |
| tú | habías opinado | Tú ya habías opinado antes de ver que una parte importante del problema todavía no había entrado en tu lectura.You had already given your opinion before seeing that an important part of the problem had not yet entered your reading. |
| él | había opinado | Ese profesor ya había opinado cuando la sala empezó por fin a formular preguntas más hondas.That professor had already given his opinion when the room finally began to formulate deeper questions. |
| nosotros | habíamos opinado | Nosotros ya habíamos opinado demasiado rápido antes de admitir que nos faltaba todavía bastante escucha.We had already given our opinion too quickly before admitting that we still lacked quite a lot of listening. |
| vosotros | habíais opinado | Vosotros ya habíais opinado con fuerza cuando comprendisteis que la situación pedía menos postura y más lectura.You all had already given your opinion strongly when you understood that the situation asked for less stance and more reading. |
| ellos | habían opinado | Ellos ya habían opinado cuando alguien por fin señaló que seguían hablando sobre un marco mal entendido.They had already given their opinion when someone finally pointed out that they were still speaking on the basis of a misunderstood framework. |
Preterite Anterior
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | hube opinado | Apenas hube opinado, sentí que la frase me había adelantado demasiado a lo que realmente entendía.As soon as I had given my opinion, I felt that the sentence had gone too far ahead of what I really understood. |
| tú | hubiste opinado | Cuando hubiste opinado, viste que ya no bastaba con añadir luego un matiz tardío.When you had given your opinion, you saw that it was no longer enough to add later a delayed nuance. |
| él | hubo opinado | Cuando ese profesor hubo opinado, el debate dejó de moverse en círculos y encontró por fin un eje.When that professor had given his opinion, the debate stopped moving in circles and at last found an axis. |
| nosotros | hubimos opinado | Cuando hubimos opinado, comprendimos que una parte de nuestra seguridad venía solo del impulso y no de la lectura.When we had given our opinion, we understood that one part of our confidence came only from impulse and not from reading. |
| vosotros | hubisteis opinado | hubisteis opinado antes de admitir que todavía no habíais escuchado del todo lo que más importaba.You all had given your opinion before admitting that you had still not fully listened to what mattered most. |
| ellos | hubieron opinado | Ellos hubieron opinado cuando todavía creían que la rapidez de juicio era señal suficiente de inteligencia.They had given their opinion when they still believed that quickness of judgment was sufficient sign of intelligence. |
Future
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | opinaré | Yo opinaré después, cuando la lectura haya respirado un poco más y no solo mi impulso.I will give my opinion later, when the reading has breathed a little more and not only my impulse. |
| tú | opinarás | Tú opinarás otra vez demasiado pronto si sigues tratando cada pregunta como una invitación inmediata al juicio.You will give your opinion too soon again if you keep treating every question as an immediate invitation to judgment. |
| él | opinará | Ese profesor opinará al final y entonces sabremos si su calma venía también con verdadera lectura.That professor will give his opinion at the end and then we will know whether his calm also came with true reading. |
| nosotros | opinaremos | Nosotros opinaremos mejor si dejamos antes que entren también las partes menos cómodas del problema.We will give our opinion better if we first let in also the less comfortable parts of the problem. |
| vosotros | opinaréis | Vosotros opinaréis con menos rigidez si aceptáis que todavía no lo veis todo con la misma claridad.You all will give your opinion with less rigidity if you accept that you still do not see everything with the same clarity. |
| ellos | opinarán | Ellos opinarán sobre esto mañana y entonces veremos si saben juzgar sin simplificarlo todo.They will give their opinion on this tomorrow and then we will see whether they know how to judge without simplifying everything. |
Future Perfect
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | habré opinado | Para entonces, yo habré opinado ya y espero no haber confundido otra vez rapidez con comprensión.By then, I will already have given my opinion and I hope not to have confused again speed with understanding. |
| tú | habrás opinado | Para la noche, tú habrás opinado ya y después quedará por ver cuánto de tu postura sabía también escuchar.By night, you will already have given your opinion and afterward it will remain to be seen how much of your stance also knew how to listen. |
| él | habrá opinado | Ese profesor habrá opinado ya cuando la sala apenas empiece a descubrir la profundidad real del asunto.That professor will already have given his opinion when the room is only just beginning to discover the real depth of the matter. |
| nosotros | habremos opinado | Para esa fecha, nosotros habremos opinado ya demasiado si no frenamos antes nuestra necesidad de cerrar rápido.By that date, we will already have given our opinion too much if we do not first slow our need to close quickly. |
| vosotros | habréis opinado | Para entonces, vosotros habréis opinado con tanta firmeza que luego os costará volver al matiz sin perder cara.By then, you all will have given your opinion with such firmness that later it will be hard for you to return to nuance without losing face. |
| ellos | habrán opinado | Ellos habrán opinado ya cuando descubran que la situación todavía guardaba más capas de las que habían leído.They will already have given their opinion when they discover that the situation still held more layers than they had read. |
Conditional
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | opinaría | Yo opinaría mejor si me permitiera primero no saber del todo y escuchar un poco más.I would give my opinion better if I first allowed myself not to fully know and to listen a little more. |
| tú | opinarías | Tú opinarías con menos rigidez si dejaras de creer que dudar un segundo debilita tu postura.You would give your opinion with less rigidity if you stopped believing that doubting for a second weakens your stance. |
| él | opinaría | Ese profesor opinaría todavía mejor si a veces mostrara también la parte incierta de su lectura.That professor would give his opinion even better if he sometimes also showed the uncertain part of his reading. |
| nosotros | opinaríamos | Nosotros opinaríamos mejor si no buscáramos convertir cada impresión rápida en posición definitiva.We would give our opinion better if we did not seek to turn every quick impression into a definitive position. |
| vosotros | opinaríais | Vosotros opinaríais con más precisión si escuchaseis antes el matiz que tanto os incomoda.You all would give your opinion more precisely if you listened first to the nuance that bothers you so much. |
| ellos | opinarían | Ellos opinarían con menos exceso si no confundieran abundancia de juicio con profundidad real.They would give their opinion with less excess if they did not confuse abundance of judgment with real depth. |
Conditional Perfect
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | habría opinado | Yo habría opinado mejor si hubiera esperado antes a que la lectura me alcanzara por completo.I would have given my opinion better if I had waited first for the reading to fully catch up with me. |
| tú | habrías opinado | Tú habrías opinado con menos dureza si hubieras dejado antes de defenderte de una crítica que aún no estaba completa.You would have given your opinion with less harshness if you had stopped earlier defending yourself from a criticism that was not yet complete. |
| él | habría opinado | Ese profesor habría opinado mejor si hubiera mostrado antes la zona incierta de su propio argumento.That professor would have given his opinion better if he had shown earlier the uncertain zone of his own argument. |
| nosotros | habríamos opinado | Nosotros habríamos opinado mejor si hubiéramos aceptado antes que la primera lectura era todavía demasiado pobre.We would have given our opinion better if we had accepted earlier that the first reading was still too poor. |
| vosotros | habríais opinado | Vosotros habríais opinado con menos rigidez si hubierais escuchado antes lo que el matiz estaba tratando de corregir.You all would have given your opinion with less rigidity if you had listened earlier to what the nuance was trying to correct. |
| ellos | habrían opinado | Ellos habrían opinado mejor si hubieran renunciado antes a esa urgencia de juzgarlo todo al primer minuto.They would have given their opinion better if they had renounced earlier that urgency to judge everything in the first minute. |
Present Subjunctive
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | opine | Es importante que yo opine solo después de haber dejado entrar también lo que todavía me contradice.It is important that I give my opinion only after also letting in what still contradicts me. |
| tú | opines | Conviene que tú opines con menos velocidad y más lectura de lo que el otro realmente está diciendo.It is advisable that you give your opinion with less speed and more reading of what the other is really saying. |
| él | opine | Es lógico que ese profesor opine al final si quiere que la sala piense un poco antes de seguirlo.It is logical that that professor give his opinion at the end if he wants the room to think a little before following him. |
| nosotros | opinemos | Es mejor que nosotros opinemos cuando la lectura ya tenga más cuerpo y menos puro impulso.It is better that we give our opinion when the reading already has more body and less pure impulse. |
| vosotros | opinéis | Nadie quiere que vosotros opinéis con una rigidez que cierre justo el matiz más necesario.Nobody wants you all to give your opinion with a rigidity that closes precisely the most necessary nuance. |
| ellos | opinen | Me interesa que ellos opinen con menos exceso y más responsabilidad por el efecto de sus juicios.It matters to me that they give their opinion with less excess and more responsibility for the effect of their judgments. |
Present Perfect Subjunctive
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | haya opinado | Espero que yo no haya opinado ya demasiado pronto y que todavía quede espacio para una lectura mejor.I hope that I have not already given my opinion too soon and that there still remains space for a better reading. |
| tú | hayas opinado | Ojalá tú hayas opinado con menos dureza de la que ahora suena todavía en la sala.Hopefully you have given your opinion with less harshness than still now sounds in the room. |
| él | haya opinado | Dudo que ese profesor haya opinado todavía si sigue escuchando con esa calma que parece buscar algo más.I doubt that that professor has yet given his opinion if he keeps listening with that calm that seems to seek something more. |
| nosotros | hayamos opinado | Espero que nosotros no hayamos opinado ya desde una certeza demasiado rápida para ser realmente justa.I hope that we have not already given our opinion from a certainty too quick to be truly just. |
| vosotros | hayáis opinado | Ojalá vosotros hayáis opinado con más matiz del que ahora parece haber quedado en el ambiente.Hopefully you all have given your opinion with more nuance than now seems to have remained in the atmosphere. |
| ellos | hayan opinado | Es posible que ellos hayan opinado ya y que ahora lo difícil sea revisar sin orgullo lo que dijeron.It is possible that they have already given their opinion and that now the difficult thing is to review without pride what they said. |
Imperfect Subjunctive
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | opinara | Si yo opinara menos pronto, quizá vería mejor qué parte del problema todavía no había entrado en mí.If I gave my opinion less quickly, perhaps I would better see what part of the problem still had not entered me. |
| tú | opinaras | Si tú opinaras con menos rigidez, la conversación podría seguir respirando después de tu intervención.If you gave your opinion with less rigidity, the conversation could keep breathing after your intervention. |
| él | opinara | Ese profesor opinara mejor si dejara ver también la duda que a veces sostiene su claridad.That professor would give his opinion better if he let be seen also the doubt that sometimes sustains his clarity. |
| nosotros | opináramos | Si nosotros opináramos menos rápido, distinguiríamos mejor entre intuición fértil y juicio pobre.If we gave our opinion less quickly, we would better distinguish between fertile intuition and poor judgment. |
| vosotros | opinarais | Si vosotros opinarais con más matiz, el desacuerdo dejaría de sonar siempre como una muralla.If you all gave your opinion with more nuance, disagreement would stop always sounding like a wall. |
| ellos | opinaran | Si ellos opinaran con menos exceso, quizá escucharían mejor lo que aún no han entendido del todo.If they gave their opinion with less excess, perhaps they would better listen to what they still have not fully understood. |
Past Perfect Subjunctive
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | hubiera opinado | Yo hubiera opinado mejor si hubiera esperado antes a que la lectura me alcanzara de verdad.I would have given my opinion better if I had waited first for the reading to truly catch up with me. |
| tú | hubieras opinado | Tú hubieras opinado con menos dureza si hubieras frenado antes esa defensa automática que te adelantó demasiado.You would have given your opinion with less harshness if you had slowed earlier that automatic defense which rushed you too far ahead. |
| él | hubiera opinado | Ese profesor hubiera opinado mejor si hubiera mostrado antes la zona incierta de su propio juicio.That professor would have given his opinion better if he had shown earlier the uncertain zone of his own judgment. |
| nosotros | hubiéramos opinado | Nosotros hubiéramos opinado mejor si hubiéramos aceptado antes que la primera lectura aún era demasiado pobre para cerrar nada.We would have given our opinion better if we had accepted earlier that the first reading was still too poor to close anything. |
| vosotros | hubierais opinado | Vosotros hubierais opinado con más precisión si hubierais escuchado antes el matiz que tanto os resistíais a dejar entrar.You all would have given your opinion with more precision if you had listened earlier to the nuance that you resisted so much letting in. |
| ellos | hubieran opinado | Ellos hubieran opinado mejor si hubieran renunciado antes a esa ansiedad por juzgarlo todo inmediatamente.They would have given their opinion better if they had renounced earlier that anxiety to judge everything immediately. |
Future Subjunctive
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | opinare | Si yo opinare mañana, será mejor hacerlo desde una lectura menos ansiosa y más abierta.If I give my opinion tomorrow, it will be better to do it from a less anxious and more open reading. |
| tú | opinares | Cuando tú opinares, recuerda que no se trata de ganar espacio sino de decir algo verdadero sin cerrarlo todo.When you give your opinion, remember that it is not about gaining space but about saying something true without closing everything. |
| él | opinare | El profesor que opinare mañana tendrá después que sostener también el desacuerdo que su lectura abra.The professor who gives his opinion tomorrow will afterward also have to sustain the disagreement his reading opens. |
| nosotros | opináremos | Si nosotros opináremos esta semana, será mejor aceptar antes que todavía no lo vemos todo igual de claro.If we give our opinion this week, it will be better first to accept that we still do not see everything equally clearly. |
| vosotros | opinareis | Si vosotros opinareis otra vez con rigidez, no olvidéis mirar qué miedo exacto os impide dejar entrar el matiz.If you all give your opinion again with rigidity, do not forget to look at what exact fear prevents you from letting in nuance. |
| ellos | opinaren | Ellos que opinaren mañana tendrán después que revisar si su juicio nació también de verdadera escucha.Those who give their opinion tomorrow will afterward have to review whether their judgment was also born from true listening. |
Future Perfect Subjunctive
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | hubiere opinado | Cuando yo hubiere opinado ya y la situación siga abierta, entenderé que mi juicio no bastaba todavía para cerrarla.When I have already given my opinion and the situation remains open, I will understand that my judgment was not yet enough to close it. |
| tú | hubieres opinado | Cuando tú hubieres opinado y el desacuerdo siga vivo, verás que una postura no sustituye todavía la lectura completa.When you have given your opinion and disagreement remains alive, you will see that a stance does not yet replace complete reading. |
| él | hubiere opinado | Cuando ese profesor hubiere opinado ya y la sala siga pensando, sabremos que su lectura no intentaba aplastar, sino abrir.When that professor has already given his opinion and the room keeps thinking, we will know that his reading did not try to crush, but to open. |
| nosotros | hubiéremos opinado | Cuando nosotros hubiéremos opinado ya y la complejidad siga allí, comprenderemos que habíamos querido cerrarla demasiado pronto.When we have already given our opinion and the complexity remains there, we will understand that we had wanted to close it too soon. |
| vosotros | hubiereis opinado | Cuando vosotros hubiereis opinado con tanta firmeza y el matiz siga pidiendo entrada, entenderéis que aún faltaba escuchar más.When you all have given your opinion with such firmness and nuance still asks to enter, you will understand that more listening was still lacking. |
| ellos | hubieren opinado | Cuando ellos hubieren opinado ya y el problema siga resistiéndose, sabrán que habían juzgado antes de leer del todo.When they have already given their opinion and the problem keeps resisting, they will know that they had judged before reading completely. |
Affirmative Imperative
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | - | - |
| tú | opina | opina, pero hazlo después de escuchar también lo que todavía te contradice.Give your opinion, but do it after also listening to what still contradicts you. |
| él | opine | opine si quiere, pero que no confunda una postura firme con una lectura ya completa.Let him give his opinion if he wants, but let him not confuse a firm stance with an already complete reading. |
| nosotros | opinemos | opinemos con más calma y dejemos que la complejidad respire antes de cerrarla.Let us give our opinion more calmly and let complexity breathe before closing it. |
| vosotros | opinad | opinad con matiz y comprobad si el desacuerdo puede seguir siendo habitable.Give your opinion with nuance and see whether disagreement can remain habitable. |
| ellos | opinen | opinen si hace falta, pero que no lo hagan desde una seguridad que no ha terminado de escuchar.Let them give their opinion if necessary, but let them not do it from a certainty that has not finished listening. |
Negative Imperative
| Pronoun | Form | Context |
|---|---|---|
| yo | - | - |
| tú | no opines | No no opines tan pronto que después tengas que desmontar una seguridad mal nacida.Do not give your opinion so soon that afterward you have to dismantle a badly born certainty. |
| él | no opine | No no opine desde una dureza que cierra justo lo que todavía debía entrar.Do not let him give his opinion from a harshness that closes precisely what still should enter. |
| nosotros | no opinemos | No no opinemos antes de tiempo; leamos un poco más antes de volver postura lo que aún es búsqueda.Let us not give our opinion ahead of time; let us read a little more before turning into stance what is still search. |
| vosotros | no opinéis | No no opinéis con rigidez como si el matiz fuera siempre una amenaza para vuestra claridad.Do not give your opinion rigidly as if nuance were always a threat to your clarity. |
| ellos | no opinen | No no opinen como si juzgar rápido fuera ya señal suficiente de inteligencia.Do not let them give their opinion as if judging quickly were already sufficient sign of intelligence. |
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Yo ___ mejor cuando no siento la obligación de tener ya una conclusión impecable.
I give my opinion better when I do not feel the obligation to already have an impeccable conclusion.
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