Compulsar means ‘to certify’ (a copy). It is a regular -ar verb: compulso (present), compulsé (preterite), compulsado (past participle), compulsando (gerund).
Compulsar in use
Fui a la oficina de registro y me compulsaron una fotocopia del DNII went to the registration office and they certified a photocopy of my ID card
Hoy en día muchos organismos ya no compulsan copias en papelNowadays many public bodies no longer certify paper copies
Compulsaré el título antes de presentar la solicitudI'll get my degree certificate certified before submitting the application
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
A copia compulsada is a copy officially certified as matching the original. Since 2015, Spanish public offices make copias auténticas instead, but compulsar is still widely heard.
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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