Hervir means ‘to boil’. It is a stem-changing -ir verb (e → ie): hiervo (present), herví and hirvió (preterite), hervido (past participle), hirviendo (gerund).
Hervir in use
El agua hierve a cien gradosWater boils at a hundred degrees
Herví los huevos diez minutosI boiled the eggs for ten minutes
Deja que hierva el aguaLet the water boil
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Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
ending the ending you addstem letters that changehaber auxiliary
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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