Cocer means ‘to boil/cook’. It is a stem-changing -er verb (o → ue) in which c becomes z before a and o: cuezo (present), cocí (preterite), cocido (past participle), cociendo (gerund).
Cocer in use
Cuece la pasta diez minutos en agua con salBoil the pasta for ten minutes in salted water
Mientras se cuecen las patatas, prepara la salsaWhile the potatoes are boiling, make the sauce
Algo se está cociendo en la oficinaSomething is brewing at the office
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Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
ending the ending you addstem letters that changehaber auxiliary
Do not confuse cocer (to cook, to boil: cuezo, cueces) with coser (to sew: coso, coses). In most of Spain they sound different, but they sound the same where c before e and i is said like s.
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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