Fregar means ‘to wash up/mop’. It is a stem-changing -ar verb (e → ie) in which g becomes gu before e: friego (present), fregué (preterite), fregado (past participle), fregando (gerund).
Fregar in use
Yo cocino y tú friegas, ¿vale?I'll cook and you wash up, OK?
Friego el suelo de la cocina los sábadosI mop the kitchen floor on Saturdays
Ya he fregado todos los platosI've already done all the washing-up
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Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
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In Spain fregar is the everyday verb for washing up (fregar los platos) and mopping (fregar el suelo). In parts of Latin America it also means to annoy (colloquial).
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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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