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divagar conjugation

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Divagar means ‘to ramble/digress’. It is a regular -ar verb with a spelling change (g becomes gu before e): divago (present), divagué (preterite), divagado (past participle), divagando (gerund).

Divagar in use

  • El conferenciante divagó durante media horaThe speaker rambled for half an hour
  • Perdona, estoy divagandoSorry, I am rambling
  • No divagues y ve al granoDon't ramble, get to the point
On this pageIndicative

Indicative

Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality

Present

yodivago
túdivagas
él/ella/usteddivaga
nosotrosdivagamos
vosotrosdivagáis
ellos/ellas/ustedesdivagan

Preterite

yodivagué
túdivagaste
él/ella/usteddivagó
nosotrosdivagamos
vosotrosdivagasteis
ellos/ellas/ustedesdivagaron

Imperfect

yodivagaba
túdivagabas
él/ella/usteddivagaba
nosotrosdivagábamos
vosotrosdivagabais
ellos/ellas/ustedesdivagaban

Future

yodivagaré
túdivagarás
él/ella/usteddivagará
nosotrosdivagaremos
vosotrosdivagaréis
ellos/ellas/ustedesdivagarán

Conditional

yodivagaría
túdivagarías
él/ella/usteddivagaría
nosotrosdivagaríamos
vosotrosdivagaríais
ellos/ellas/ustedesdivagarían
divagando
used in the present progressive
divagado
used in the perfect tenses

Present perfect, subjunctive and imperative

Present perfect

yohe divagado
túhas divagado
él/ella/ustedha divagado
nosotroshemos divagado
vosotroshabéis divagado
ellos/ellas/ustedeshan divagado

Present subjunctive

yodivague
túdivagues
él/ella/usteddivague
nosotrosdivaguemos
vosotrosdivaguéis
ellos/ellas/ustedesdivaguen

Imperative

yo-
túdivaga
él/ella/usteddivague
nosotrosdivaguemos
vosotrosdivagad
ellos/ellas/ustedesdivaguen

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

yohabía divagado
túhabías divagado
él/ella/ustedhabía divagado
nosotroshabíamos divagado
vosotroshabíais divagado
ellos/ellas/ustedeshabían divagado

Future perfect

yohabré divagado
túhabrás divagado
él/ella/ustedhabrá divagado
nosotroshabremos divagado
vosotroshabréis divagado
ellos/ellas/ustedeshabrán divagado

Conditional perfect

yohabría divagado
túhabrías divagado
él/ella/ustedhabría divagado
nosotroshabríamos divagado
vosotroshabríais divagado
ellos/ellas/ustedeshabrían divagado

Imperfect subjunctive (-ra)

yodivagara
túdivagaras
él/ella/usteddivagara
nosotrosdivagáramos
vosotrosdivagarais
ellos/ellas/ustedesdivagaran

Imperfect subjunctive (-se)

Literary / Spain
yodivagase
túdivagases
él/ella/usteddivagase
nosotrosdivagásemos
vosotrosdivagaseis
ellos/ellas/ustedesdivagasen

Present perfect subjunctive

yohaya divagado
túhayas divagado
él/ella/ustedhaya divagado
nosotroshayamos divagado
vosotroshayáis divagado
ellos/ellas/ustedeshayan divagado

Pluperfect subjunctive

yohubiera divagado
túhubieras divagado
él/ella/ustedhubiera divagado
nosotroshubiéramos divagado
vosotroshubierais divagado
ellos/ellas/ustedeshubieran divagado

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More examples with divagar

  • Divagar sobre un temaTo ramble on about a subject
  • Dejar divagar la menteTo let your mind wander
  • Divagar sin llegar a nadaTo ramble on without getting anywhere

Practice: divagar to ramble/digress

Indicative
Subjunctive
Perfect tenses
Imperative

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