Determinar means ‘to determine/establish’. It is a regular -ar verb: determino (present), determiné (preterite), determinado (past participle), determinando (gerund).
Determinar in use
Los genes determinan el color de los ojosGenes determine eye colour
La policía todavía no ha determinado la causa del incendioThe police have not yet established the cause of the fire
Esta decisión determinará nuestro futuroThis decision will determine our future
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
Determinar matches English to determine (to establish or decide), but take care with the adjective: determinado often means certain or specific (en determinados casos), and a determined person is usually decidido.
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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