Estancar means ‘to stall/hold back’. It is a regular -ar verb with a spelling change (c becomes qu before e): estanco (present), estanqué (preterite), estancado (past participle), estancando (gerund).
Estancar in use
Las negociaciones se estancaron en el último momentoThe negotiations stalled at the last moment
Temo que el proyecto se estanque por falta de dineroI am afraid the project will stall for lack of money
Este pequeño dique estanca el agua del ríoThis small dam holds back the river water
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
ending the ending you addstem letters that changehaber auxiliary
Mostly used in the reflexive, estancarse, for talks, wages or an economy that stops moving forward.
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.
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