Estropear means ‘to break/spoil’. It is a regular -ar verb: estropeo (present), estropeé (preterite), estropeado (past participle), estropeando (gerund).
Estropear in use
Se nos estropeó el coche en la autopistaOur car broke down on the motorway
La lluvia estropeó la bodaThe rain spoilt the wedding
No le cuentes el final, que le estropeas la películaDon't tell him the ending, you'll spoil the film for him
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Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
Estropear is the everyday verb in Spain for something breaking down or being spoilt: se ha estropeado la lavadora (the washing machine has broken down). In Latin America people often say descomponerse or dañarse.
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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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