Descifrar means ‘to decipher/decode’. It is a regular -ar verb: descifro (present), descifré (preterite), descifrado (past participle), descifrando (gerund).
Descifrar in use
No consigo descifrar la letra del médicoI can't make out the doctor's handwriting
Descifraron el mensaje en pocos minutosThey decoded the message in a few minutes
Los alumnos están descifrando un texto antiguoThe pupils are deciphering an old text
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
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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