Apretar means ‘to press/squeeze/be tight’. It is a stem-changing -ar verb (e → ie): aprieto (present), apreté (preterite), apretado (past participle), apretando (gerund).
Apretar in use
Aprieta el botón rojo para pararPress the red button to stop
Estos zapatos me aprietanThese shoes are too tight
Me apretó la mano con fuerzaHe squeezed my hand tightly
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
ending the ending you addstem letters that changehaber auxiliary
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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