Indicative

Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality

Not every form is used. An impersonal weather verb: it is only used in the third person singular (llueve, nieva). The third person plural appears only in figurative use (llueven críticas). Forms that are not used are shown as "-".

Present

llover: Present
yo-
tú-
él/ella/ustedllueve
nosotros-
vosotros-
ellos/ellas/ustedes-
Stem change
o → ue in yo, tú, él, ellos: lluevo, llueves, llueve, llueven.

Preterite

llover: Preterite
yo-
tú-
él/ella/ustedllovió
nosotros-
vosotros-
ellos/ellas/ustedes-

Imperfect

llover: Imperfect
yo-
tú-
él/ella/ustedllovía
nosotros-
vosotros-
ellos/ellas/ustedes-

Future

llover: Future
yo-
tú-
él/ella/ustedlloverá
nosotros-
vosotros-
ellos/ellas/ustedes-

Conditional

llover: Conditional
yo-
tú-
él/ella/ustedllovería
nosotros-
vosotros-
ellos/ellas/ustedes-

Gerund and past participle

lloviendo
used in the present progressive
llovido
used in the perfect tenses

Present perfect, subjunctive and imperative

Present perfect

llover: Present perfect
yo-
tú-
él/ella/ustedha llovido
nosotros-
vosotros-
ellos/ellas/ustedes-
llover: Present subjunctive
yo-
tú-
él/ella/ustedllueva
nosotros-
vosotros-
ellos/ellas/ustedes-
llover: Imperative
yo-
tú-
él/ella/usted-
nosotros-
vosotros-
ellos/ellas/ustedes-

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.

Past perfect

llover: Past perfect
yo-
tú-
él/ella/ustedhabía llovido
nosotros-
vosotros-
ellos/ellas/ustedes-

Future perfect

llover: Future perfect
yo-
tú-
él/ella/ustedhabrá llovido
nosotros-
vosotros-
ellos/ellas/ustedes-
llover: Conditional perfect
yo-
tú-
él/ella/ustedhabría llovido
nosotros-
vosotros-
ellos/ellas/ustedes-
llover: Imperfect subjunctive (-ra)
yo-
tú-
él/ella/ustedlloviera
nosotros-
vosotros-
ellos/ellas/ustedes-

Imperfect subjunctive (-se)

Literary / Spain
llover: Imperfect subjunctive (-se)
yo-
tú-
él/ella/ustedlloviese
nosotros-
vosotros-
ellos/ellas/ustedes-
llover: Present perfect subjunctive
yo-
tú-
él/ella/ustedhaya llovido
nosotros-
vosotros-
ellos/ellas/ustedes-
llover: Pluperfect subjunctive
yo-
tú-
él/ella/ustedhubiera llovido
nosotros-
vosotros-
ellos/ellas/ustedes-

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Indicative
Subjunctive
Perfect tenses