Proteger means ‘to protect’. It is a regular -er verb with a spelling change (g becomes j before a and o): protejo (present), protegí (preterite), protegido (past participle), protegiendo (gerund).
Proteger in use
Protejo a mi familiaI protect my family
Protegen el medio ambienteThey protect the environment
proteger los derechosto protect rights
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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