Ponderar means ‘to weigh up/praise’. It is a regular -ar verb: pondero (present), ponderé (preterite), ponderado (past participle), ponderando (gerund).
Ponderar in use
El tribunal ponderó todas las pruebasThe court weighed up all the evidence
Los críticos ponderan su talentoThe critics praise her talent
Ponderaremos cada propuesta antes de votarWe will weigh up each proposal before voting
On this pageIndicative
Indicative
Statements of fact, certainty and objective reality
The usual sense is to consider carefully, like sopesar. In formal writing it can also mean to praise highly.
More tenses
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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