Desmentir means ‘to deny/refute’. It is a stem-changing -ir verb (e → ie): desmiento (present), desmentí and desmintió (preterite), desmentido (past participle), desmintiendo (gerund).
Desmentir in use
El portavoz desmintió la noticiaThe spokesperson denied the report
La actriz desmiente los rumores sobre su bodaThe actress denies the rumours about her wedding
Los datos desmienten lo que dijo el ministroThe data contradict what the minister said
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
ending the ending you addstem letters that changehaber auxiliary
Desmentir means to deny publicly that a report or rumour is true. For denying something in general, the usual verb is negar.
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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