Merendar means ‘to have an afternoon snack’. It is a stem-changing -ar verb (e → ie): meriendo (present), merendé (preterite), merendado (past participle), merendando (gerund).
Merendar in use
Los niños meriendan a las cincoThe children have their afternoon snack at five
Ayer merendamos chocolate con churrosYesterday we had hot chocolate and churros as an afternoon snack
¿Qué quieres merendar?What do you want for your afternoon snack?
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In Spain merendar means having la merienda, the light snack between lunch and a late dinner, often around five or six o'clock.
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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