Despilfarrar means ‘to waste/squander’. It is a regular -ar verb: despilfarro (present), despilfarré (preterite), despilfarrado (past participle), despilfarrando (gerund).
Despilfarrar in use
Mi hermano despilfarra todo lo que ganaMy brother squanders everything he earns
Despilfarraron la herencia en un par de añosThey squandered the inheritance in a couple of years
No despilfarres el agua, que estamos en sequíaDon't waste water: we're in a drought
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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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