Sorprender means ‘to surprise’. It is a regular -er verb: sorprendo (present), sorprendí (preterite), sorprendido (past participle), sorprendiendo (gerund).
Sorprender in use
Me sorprende que no hayas venidoI'm surprised you haven't come
Nos sorprendió la noticiaThe news surprised us
Quiero sorprender a mi madre en su cumpleañosI want to surprise my mother on her birthday
On this pageIndicative
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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