Desaprovechar means ‘to waste’ (a chance). It is a regular -ar verb: desaprovecho (present), desaproveché (preterite), desaprovechado (past participle), desaprovechando (gerund).
Desaprovechar in use
No desaproveches esta oportunidadDon't waste this opportunity
Desaprovechamos toda la mañana y no hicimos nadaWe wasted the whole morning and did nothing
El equipo ha desaprovechado varias ocasiones de golThe team has wasted several chances to score
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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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