to find your way/get your bearingsB1regular-arreflexive
Orientarse means ‘to find your way/get your bearings’. It is a regular reflexive -ar verb: me oriento (present), me orienté (preterite), orientado (past participle), orientándose (gerund).
Orientarse in use
Me oriento fatal en las ciudades grandesI'm terrible at finding my way around big cities
Sin el móvil, mi hermano no se orientaba nada en MadridWithout his mobile, my brother was hopeless at finding his way around Madrid
Os orientaréis enseguida, el pueblo es pequeñoYou'll get your bearings straight away, the village is small
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
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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