Encender means ‘to turn on/light’. It is a stem-changing -er verb (e → ie): enciendo (present), encendí (preterite), encendido (past participle), encendiendo (gerund).
Encender in use
Enciende la lámpara, está muy oscuroTurn on the lamp, it's very dark
Encendí el horno para cocinarI turned on the oven to cook
Encender la luzTo turn on the light
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
ending the ending you addstem letters that changehaber auxiliary
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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