Lamentar means ‘to be sorry about/regret’. It is a regular -ar verb: lamento (present), lamenté (preterite), lamentado (past participle), lamentando (gerund).
Lamentar in use
Lamento llegar tardeI'm sorry I'm late
Lamentamos las molestiasWe apologise for any inconvenience
Lamentó no haber estudiado másHe regretted not having studied more
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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