Prohibir means ‘to forbid/ban’. It is a regular -ir verb with a spelling change (the stem i takes a written accent when stressed): prohíbo (present), prohibí (preterite), prohibido (past participle), prohibiendo (gerund).
Prohibir in use
Mis padres me prohíben salir entre semanaMy parents don't let me go out on weekdays
El ayuntamiento ha prohibido los coches en el centroThe council has banned cars from the centre
Te prohíbo que digas esoI forbid you to say that
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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