Desencadenar means ‘to trigger/unleash’. It is a regular -ar verb: desencadeno (present), desencadené (preterite), desencadenado (past participle), desencadenando (gerund).
Desencadenar in use
La noticia desencadenó una ola de protestasThe news triggered a wave of protests
Una simple discusión puede desencadenar un conflictoA simple argument can trigger a conflict
Se ha desencadenado una fuerte tormenta en la sierraA violent storm has broken out in the mountains
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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