Sobrar means ‘to be left over’. It is a regular -ar verb: sobra (present), sobró (preterite), sobrado (past participle), sobrando (gerund). It is mostly used in the third person with an indirect object pronoun, like gustar: me sobra, me sobran.
Sobrar in use
Sobró mucha comida de la fiestaThere was a lot of food left over from the party
¿Te sobró dinero?Did you have any money left over?
Sobrar comidaTo have leftover food
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
The other perfect tenses (haber + past participle) and the past subjunctive
The imperfect subjunctive has two forms: -ra (more common in speech) and -se (more formal; still heard in speech in Spain, mainly written in Latin America). Both are equally correct and interchangeable.
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