Empeñarse means ‘to insist/be set on’. It is a regular reflexive -ar verb: me empeño (present), me empeñé (preterite), empeñado (past participle), empeñándose (gerund).
Empeñarse in use
Mi padre se empeña en pagar siempre la cuentaMy dad insists on always paying the bill
Se empeñaron en ir a la playa aunque llovíaThey were set on going to the beach even though it was raining
Si te empeñas, te acompaño al médicoIf you insist, I'll go to the doctor's with you
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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