Educar means ‘to bring up/educate’. It is a regular -ar verb with a spelling change (c becomes qu before e): educo (present), eduqué (preterite), educado (past participle), educando (gerund).
Educar in use
Mis padres me educaron en dos idiomasMy parents brought me up speaking two languages
Es un niño muy bien educadoHe's a very well-mannered child
La escuela debe educar, no solo enseñarSchool should educate, not just teach
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
ending the ending you addstem letters that changehaber auxiliary
False friend: bien educado means well-mannered or polite, not well educated (that is culto or con estudios).
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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