Atardecer means ‘to draw towards evening/sunset’. It is an irregular verb, used only in the third person singular: atardece (present), atardeció (preterite), atardezca (present subjunctive).
Atardecer in use
En verano atardece hacia las diez en GaliciaIn summer the sun goes down at around ten in Galicia
Atardecía cuando llegamos al puebloEvening was falling when we reached the village
Nos quedamos en la playa hasta que atardecióWe stayed on the beach until the sun went down
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Not every form is used. Impersonal: it is only used in the third person singular (atardece, atardecía). It is most often met as a noun, el atardecer (sunset, dusk). Forms that are not used are shown as "-".
ending the ending you addstem letters that changehaber auxiliary
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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