Espantar means ‘to scare away/horrify’. It is a regular -ar verb: espanto (present), espanté (preterite), espantado (past participle), espantando (gerund).
Espantar in use
El ruido espantó a los pájarosThe noise scared the birds away
Me espantan las arañasSpiders horrify me
Se espantó al ver el precioHe was horrified when he saw the price
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Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
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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