Sancionar means ‘to penalise/sanction’. It is a regular -ar verb: sanciono (present), sancioné (preterite), sancionado (past participle), sancionando (gerund).
Sancionar in use
Sancionaron al jugador con tres partidosThe player was banned for three matches
Sancionarán a la empresa por contaminar el ríoThe company will be penalised for polluting the river
El reglamento sanciona el uso del móvil durante el examenThe rules penalise the use of mobile phones during the exam
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Sancionar usually means to punish or penalise. The sense of giving approval is mainly found in formal or legal language (sancionar una ley).
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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