Maltratar means ‘to mistreat/abuse’. It is a regular -ar verb: maltrato (present), maltraté (preterite), maltratado (past participle), maltratando (gerund).
Maltratar in use
La policía detuvo a un hombre por maltratar a sus perrosThe police arrested a man for mistreating his dogs
Multaron a una granja que maltrataba a los animalesThey fined a farm that was mistreating its animals
No maltrates los libros, son de la bibliotecaDon't mistreat the books, they belong to the library
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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