Disimular means ‘to hide/cover up’. It is a regular -ar verb: disimulo (present), disimulé (preterite), disimulado (past participle), disimulando (gerund).
Disimular in use
Disimula, que viene el profesorAct natural, the teacher is coming
No pudo disimular su alegríaShe couldn't hide her joy
Aunque estaba nerviosa, lo disimulaba muy bienAlthough she was nervous, she hid it very well
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
Disimular means hiding something you really feel or know. Simular is the opposite idea: pretending something that is not real.
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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