Calentar means ‘to heat/warm up’. It is a stem-changing -ar verb (e → ie): caliento (present), calenté (preterite), calentado (past participle), calentando (gerund).
Calentar in use
Caliento la leche en el microondasI heat the milk in the microwave
Los jugadores calentaron antes del partidoThe players warmed up before the match
Calienta el horno a 180 gradosHeat the oven to 180 degrees
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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