Conversar means ‘to talk/chat’. It is a regular -ar verb: converso (present), conversé (preterite), conversado (past participle), conversando (gerund).
Conversar in use
Conversamos durante horas en la terrazaWe talked for hours on the terrace
Mis padres conversaban con los vecinosMy parents used to chat with the neighbours
Me gusta conversar con gente de otros paísesI like talking to people from other countries
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Conversar is slightly more formal. In everyday speech in Spain people usually say hablar or charlar.
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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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