Escasear means ‘to be scarce/run short’. It is a regular -ar verb: escaseo (present), escaseé (preterite), escaseado (past participle), escaseando (gerund).
Escasear in use
En esta zona escasean los médicosThere is a shortage of doctors in this area
Durante la crisis escasearon los alimentos básicosDuring the crisis, basic foods were in short supply
Si no llueve pronto, escaseará el agua en toda la comarcaIf it doesn't rain soon, water will run short across the whole area
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
Used almost only in the third person, and the subject usually comes after the verb (escasea el agua).
More tenses
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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