Iluminar means ‘to light up/illuminate’. It is a regular -ar verb: ilumino (present), iluminé (preterite), iluminado (past participle), iluminando (gerund).
Iluminar in use
Las velas iluminaban la mesaThe candles lit the table
Por Navidad iluminan todo el centro de la ciudadAt Christmas they light up the whole city centre
Se le iluminó la cara al ver el regaloHer face lit up when she saw the present
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
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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