Prescribir means ‘to prescribe/lapse’. It is a regular -ir verb: prescribo (present), prescribí (preterite), prescrito (irregular past participle), prescribiendo (gerund).
Prescribir in use
La doctora le prescribió un antibióticoThe doctor prescribed him an antibiotic
El delito ha prescrito, así que no pueden juzgarloThe legal time limit for the offence has passed, so he cannot be tried
La deuda prescribirá dentro de cinco añosThe debt will lapse in five years' time
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
ending the ending you addirregular learn by hearthaber auxiliary
Partly a false friend: prescribir also means that a debt, right or offence lapses because a legal time limit has passed. For medicines, everyday Spanish usually says recetar.
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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