Ubicar means ‘to locate/place’. It is a regular -ar verb with a spelling change (c becomes qu before e): ubico (present), ubiqué (preterite), ubicado (past participle), ubicando (gerund).
Ubicar in use
La oficina se ubica en la tercera plantaThe office is on the third floor
La tienda está ubicada en pleno centroThe shop is located right in the centre
Ubicaron la nueva parada junto al institutoThey put the new stop next to the secondary school
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
ending the ending you addstem letters that changehaber auxiliary
In Spain you mostly meet this as estar ubicado (to be located), and situar is at least as common. It is more of an everyday verb in Latin America, where it can also mean to find someone or something.
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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