Reclamar means ‘to claim/complain’. It is a regular -ar verb: reclamo (present), reclamé (preterite), reclamado (past participle), reclamando (gerund).
Reclamar in use
Si cancelan el vuelo, puedes reclamar una compensaciónIf they cancel the flight, you can claim compensation
Reclamamos a la compañía y nos devolvieron el dineroWe complained to the company and they gave us our money back
Los vecinos reclaman más zonas verdesThe residents are demanding more green spaces
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A false friend: reclamar means to claim what you are owed, to demand or to complain formally, not "to reclaim" in the sense of recycling. In Spain you can ask a shop for its hoja de reclamaciones, the official complaints form.
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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