Escatimar means ‘to skimp on/spare’. It is a regular -ar verb: escatimo (present), escatimé (preterite), escatimado (past participle), escatimando (gerund).
Escatimar in use
No escatimaron esfuerzos para salvar la empresaThey spared no effort to save the company
Nunca escatima elogios a sus alumnosShe never holds back praise from her pupils
No escatimes en seguridad, es lo más importanteDon't skimp on safety, it is the most important thing
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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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