Spanish Verb ALENTAR - to encourage. Irregular AR family

Spanish Verb ALENTAR: to encourage

The Spanish verb alentar means 'to encourage ' and is an irregular Spanish AR verb.

To remember this, imagine you encourage ALAN TA do his best!

Alentar changes the stem in the Present, Present Subjunctive and Imperative tenses.
During December a new irregular -AR verb is featured each day to enable you to consolidate an irregular AR verb family. You will learn other verbs with similar patterns such as apretar, cerrar, calentar, desterrar, and others.

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Read on, below the ALENTAR verb table...

to encourage: alentar
Imagine you encourage ALAN TA do his best!

VERB CONJUGATION TABLE alentar
Simple Tenses alentar
TENSE	yo	tú	él, ella, usted	nosotros	vosotros	ellos, ellas, ustedes
Present Presente encourage	aliento	alientas	alienta	alentamos	alentáis	alientan
Imperfect Imperfecto encouraged	alentaba	alentabas	alentaba	alentábamos	alentabais	alentaban
Preterit Pretérito encouraged	alenté	alentaste	alentó	alentamos	alentasteis	alentaron
Future Futuro will encourage	alentaré	alentarás	alentará	alentaremos	alentaréis	alentarán
Conditional Condicional would encourage	alentaría	alentarías	alentaría	alentaríamos	alentaríais	alentarían
Subjunctive Subjuntivo may encourage	aliente	alientes	aliente	alentemos	alentéis	alienten
Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjuntivo may encourage	alentara	alentaras	alentara	alentáramos	alentarais	alentaran
	alentase	alentases	alentase	alentásemos	alentaseis	alentasen
Imperative Tenses alentar
Imperative Imperativo encourage!		¡alienta!	¡aliente!	¡alentemos!	¡alentad!	¡alienten!
Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo don't encourage!		¡no alientes!	¡no aliente!	¡no alentemos!	¡no alentéis!	¡no alienten!
Compound Tenses alentar - Past Participle alentado - encouraged
Present Perfect Perfecto de Indicativo have encouraged	he alentado	has alentado	ha alentado	hemos alentado	habéis alentado	han alentado
Preterit Perfect Pretérito Anterior had encouraged	hube alentado	hubiste alentado	hubo alentado	hubimos alentado	hubisteis alentado	hubieron alentado
Past Perfect Pluscuamperfecto had encouraged	había alentado	habías alentado	había alentado	habíamos alentado	habíais alentado	habían alentado
Present Perfect Subjunctive Presente perfecto have encouraged	haya alentado	hayas alentado	haya alentado	hayamos alentado	hayáis alentado	hayan alentado
Future Perfect Futuro Perfecto will have encouraged	habré alentado	habrás alentado	habrá alentado	habremos alentado	habréis alentado	habrán alentado
Conditional Perfect Condicional Perfecto would have encouraged	habría alentado	habrías alentado	habría alentado	habríamos alentado	habríais alentado	habrían alentado
Pluperfect Pluscuamperfecto may have encouraged	hubiera alentado	hubieras alentado	hubiera alentado	hubiéramos alentado	hubierais alentado	hubieran alentado
Pluperfect Pluscuamperfecto may have encouraged	hubiese alentado	hubieses alentado	hubiese alentado	hubiésemos alentado	hubieseis alentado	hubiesen alentado
Progressive Tenses: Present Participle alentando - encouraging
Present Progressive Presente Progressivo am encouraging	estoy alentando	estás alentando	está alentando	estamos alentando	está alentando	están alentando
Preterit Progressive Pretérito was encouraging	estuve alentando	estuviste alentando	estuvo alentando	estuvimos alentando	estuvisteis alentando	estuvieron alentando
Imperfect Progressive Imperfecto had been encouraging	estaba alentando	estabas alentando	estaba alentando	estábamos alentando	estabais alentando	estaban alentando
Future Progressive Futuro Perfecto will be encouraging	estaré alentando	estarás alentando	estará alentando	estaremos alentando	estaréis alentando	estarán alentando
Conditional Progressive Condicional perfecto would've been encouraging	estaría alentando	estarías alentando	estabría alentando	estaríamos alentando	estaríais alentando	estarían alentando
Subjunctive Progressive Subjuntivo may've been encouraging	que ~ alentando	que ~ alentando	que ~ alentando	que ~ alentando	que ~ alentando	que ~ alentando

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MORE on the SPANISH VERB alentar

alentar can also mean: to cheer on, to hearten; to breathe.
alentarse (vr): to get better (LAm); to take heart, to cheer up; to give birth to (CAm).

alentador/a (adj): encouraging.
dar aliento a alguien: to encourage someone.

el aliento (nm): breath.
tener mal aliento: to have bad breath.
sin aliento: out of breath, breathless.
faltar el aliento: to be out/short of breath.
tomar aliento: to catch one's breath.
cobrar aliento: to take heart.

vos replaces tú - you, informal, singular -
- in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and also in some countries of Central America.
Sometimes it also replaces the formal singular 'Usted'.
In irregular AR verbs, the conjugations remain the same as for tú except for the addition of accents in the following tenses:
Presente: vos alentás
Imperativo: ¡alentá!

HOW TO CONQUER SPANISH VERB CONJUGATION

The Spanish verb for encourage alentar is an Irregular AR verb.
Learn to conjugate alentar and it will reinforce this irregular pattern.
Do a series of verbs every day for a month and you will have a solid knowledge of the verbs' conjugation patterns. Keep doing them with a new one every day from the Spanish Verbs List.
The same applies to the various patterns. Each month we feature a daily verb from one of the major pattern groups.
Repeating these tables aloud 10 times throughout the day will better embed the patterns into your subconscious, and your long term memory.
Reciting aloud is a great way for you to practice your pronunciation, and helps you to memorize the conjugations.

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