Agobiar means ‘to stress out/overwhelm’. It is a regular -ar verb: agobio (present), agobié (preterite), agobiado (past participle), agobiando (gerund).
Agobiar in use
No te agobies, tenemos tiempoDon't get stressed, we have time
Me agobia tener tantos deberesHaving so much homework stresses me out
Mis padres me agobiaban con tantas preguntasMy parents overwhelmed me with so many questions
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Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
Very common in Spain for feeling stressed or overwhelmed, whether by work, heat or crowds.
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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