Dañarse Conjugation in Spanish

dañarse means «to get damaged, to hurt oneself». It is a regular -ar verb, reflexive verb, so the tables below show you exactly how it behaves in every tense. On this page you will find the full conjugation of dañarse in all thirteen tenses, notes on when to use each one, example sentences, the mistakes learners make most often, a ten-question quiz and answers to the questions students ask about this verb. For example: «Me daño todos los días» — I get damaged every day.

Quick facts

  • Infinitive: dañarse
  • English: to get damaged, to hurt oneself
  • Verb type: regular -ar verb, reflexive
  • Ending: -ar
  • Gerund: dañando
  • Past participle: dañado
  • Auxiliary verb: haber (all perfect tenses are formed with haber + dañado)
  • Reflexive pronouns: me, te, se, nos, os, se — one before every conjugated form, matching the person.

Pronunciation is not listed on this page: the verified tables do not include IPA for dañarse, so no pronunciation is given rather than an invented one.

dañarse is reflexive: Me daño todos los días; te dañas todos los días. Without the pronoun, the verb means doing the action to someone else rather than to yourself, so keep the pronoun with the form.

Full conjugation tables

Every form below comes from the verified conjugation tables for dañarse. The imperfect subjunctive is shown in its -ra forms; the -se forms use the same stem. For reflexive verbs, the pronoun column shows the reflexive pronoun that goes before each form.

Gerund: dañando · Past participle: dañado

Present Indicative

Person Pronoun Form
yo me daño
tú te dañas
él/ella/Ud. se daña
nosotros/as nos dañamos
vosotros/as os dañáis
ellos/ellas/Uds. se dañan

The present tense describes habits, facts and what is happening now. For dañarse, the yo form is daño, as in the examples below. Use the present for routines («todos los días») and for general truths, and remember that Spanish often uses the present where English would use a progressive or a near future.

Preterite

Person Pronoun Form
yo me dañé
tú te dañaste
él/ella/Ud. se dañó
nosotros/as nos dañamos
vosotros/as os dañasteis
ellos/ellas/Uds. se dañaron

The preterite describes completed actions in the past — things that started and finished. «Ayer yo dañé» is the classic use. Do not confuse it with the imperfect: the preterite moves the story forward, one finished event at a time.

Imperfect

Person Pronoun Form
yo me dañaba
tú te dañabas
él/ella/Ud. se dañaba
nosotros/as nos dañábamos
vosotros/as os dañabais
ellos/ellas/Uds. se dañaban

The imperfect describes the past as background: habits, descriptions and actions in progress. «De pequeño, yo dañaba» shows the habitual use. It sets the scene while the preterite reports what happened inside it.

Future

Person Pronoun Form
yo me dañaré
tú te dañarás
él/ella/Ud. se dañará
nosotros/as nos dañaremos
vosotros/as os dañaréis
ellos/ellas/Uds. se dañarán

The future tense states what will happen. For dañarse the future is built on the infinitive: «Mañana yo dañaré». It is also used for predictions and promises, and in spoken Spanish it often alternates with ir a + infinitive.

Conditional

Person Pronoun Form
yo me dañaría
tú te dañarías
él/ella/Ud. se dañaría
nosotros/as nos dañaríamos
vosotros/as os dañaríais
ellos/ellas/Uds. se dañarían

The conditional expresses what would happen: wishes, polite requests and hypothetical results. «Si tuviera más tiempo, yo dañaría» is the typical pattern. It shares its stem with the future and changes only the endings.

Present Perfect

Person Pronoun Form
yo me he dañado
tú te has dañado
él/ella/Ud. se ha dañado
nosotros/as nos hemos dañado
vosotros/as os habéis dañado
ellos/ellas/Uds. se han dañado

The present perfect connects the past with the present: something that has happened, often today or recently. It is haber in the present plus the past participle: «Hoy yo he dañado». In Spain it is used for anything that happened today; in Latin America the preterite is often preferred.

Pluperfect

Person Pronoun Form
yo me había dañado
tú te habías dañado
él/ella/Ud. se había dañado
nosotros/as nos habíamos dañado
vosotros/as os habíais dañado
ellos/ellas/Uds. se habían dañado

The pluperfect describes an event that happened before another past event: «Cuando llegué, ya había dañado». It is haber in the imperfect plus the past participle, and it is the tense for explaining what had already happened when something else took place.

Future Perfect

Person Pronoun Form
yo me habré dañado
tú te habrás dañado
él/ella/Ud. se habrá dañado
nosotros/as nos habremos dañado
vosotros/as os habréis dañado
ellos/ellas/Uds. se habrán dañado

The future perfect looks back from a future point: by then, something will already have happened. «Para mañana, yo habré dañado» is the pattern — haber in the future plus the past participle. It is less common in speech but regular in formal writing.

Conditional Perfect

Person Pronoun Form
yo me habría dañado
tú te habrías dañado
él/ella/Ud. se habría dañado
nosotros/as nos habríamos dañado
vosotros/as os habríais dañado
ellos/ellas/Uds. se habrían dañado

The conditional perfect expresses what would have happened: «Yo habría dañado si hubiera podido». It is haber in the conditional plus the past participle, and it is the tense for regrets and missed chances.

Present Subjunctive

Person Pronoun Form
yo me dañe
tú te dañes
él/ella/Ud. se dañe
nosotros/as nos dañemos
vosotros/as os dañéis
ellos/ellas/Uds. se dañen

The present subjunctive appears after wishes, doubts, emotions and impersonal expressions: «Espero que él dañe». The trigger is in the main clause; the subjunctive is the mood of uncertainty, desire and influence. Learn the yo form first — most of the table follows from it.

Imperfect Subjunctive (-ra forms)

Person Pronoun Form
yo me dañara
tú te dañaras
él/ella/Ud. se dañara
nosotros/as nos dañáramos
vosotros/as os dañarais
ellos/ellas/Uds. se dañaran

The imperfect subjunctive is the past partner of the present subjunctive, used after past-tense triggers and in si-clauses: «Si él dañara, todo sería distinto». The table above shows the -ra forms, the ones you will hear most often. There is also a less common -se set built on the same stem.

Imperative — Affirmative

Person Pronoun Form
tú te daña
él/ella/Ud. se dañe
nosotros/as nos dañemos
vosotros/as os dañad
ellos/ellas/Uds. se dañen

There is no yo form in the imperative — you cannot command yourself.

In real speech the reflexive pronoun attaches to the end of an affirmative command; the table shows the pronoun and the form separately so you can see both parts.

The affirmative imperative gives direct commands and instructions: «¡daña!». There is no yo form — you cannot command yourself. The tú form is the one you will use with friends and family, and the usted form with people you address formally.

Imperative — Negative

Person Pronoun Form
tú te dañes
él/ella/Ud. se dañe
nosotros/as nos dañemos
vosotros/as os dañéis
ellos/ellas/Uds. se dañen

There is no yo form in the imperative — you cannot command yourself.

In real speech the reflexive pronoun attaches to the end of an affirmative command; the table shows the pronoun and the form separately so you can see both parts.

The negative imperative tells someone not to do something: «¡No dañes!». Unlike the affirmative imperative, the negative forms come from the present subjunctive, which is why they look different. Never use the affirmative form after no.

Example sentences

  1. Me daño todos los días. — I get damaged every day.
  2. Ayer me dañé por la tarde. — Yesterday I got damaged in the afternoon.
  3. Antes, me dañaba todos los días. — In the past, I used to get damaged every day.
  4. Mañana me dañaré sin falta. — Tomorrow I will get damaged without fail.
  5. Si tuviera más tiempo, me dañaría ahora mismo. — If I had more time, I would get damaged right now.
  6. Hoy me he dañado dos veces. — Today I have got damaged twice.
  7. Espero que te dañes pronto. — I hope You get damaged soon.
  8. Si me dañara, todo sería distinto. — If I got damaged, everything would be different.
  9. Ahora mismo me estoy dañando. — Right now I am getting damaged.
  10. ¡No te dañes! — Don't get damaged!

Common mistakes

1. Forgetting the reflexive pronoun

Wrong: yo daño todos los días.

Right: me daño todos los días.

dañarse is reflexive: the pronoun me belongs before every conjugated form. Without it, you are using the non-reflexive verb, which means something different — doing the action to someone else instead of to yourself.

2. Using the imperfect for a finished event

Wrong: Ayer me dañaba.

Right: Ayer me dañé.

Yesterday's finished action needs the preterite, dañé. The imperfect dañaba describes what used to happen or what was going on, not a single completed event.

3. Using the indicative after a subjunctive trigger

Wrong: Espero que te dañas.

Right: Espero que te dañes.

After espero que, Spanish requires the subjunctive: dañes, not the indicative dañas. Wishes, hopes and doubts all trigger this change.

4. Using the affirmative imperative after no

Wrong: No te daña.

Right: No te dañes.

Negative commands use the subjunctive-based forms: no dañes. The affirmative daña can never follow no.

5. Confusing the gerund with the past participle

Wrong: He dañando.

Right: He dañado.

The perfect tenses use haber plus the past participle: he dañado. The gerund dañando goes with estar for actions in progress («Estoy dañando»), never with haber.

Quiz

Test yourself on the forms above. Choose the correct answer, then check the key below.

1. What is the yo form of dañarse in the present indicative?

- (a) daño
- (b) daña
- (c) dañamos
- (d) dañas

2. What is the tú form of dañarse in the preterite?

- (a) dañaste
- (b) dañé
- (c) dañó
- (d) dañamos

3. What is the él/ella/Ud. form of dañarse in the imperfect?

- (a) dañábamos
- (b) dañabas
- (c) dañaba
- (d) dañaba

4. What is the nosotros/as form of dañarse in the future?

- (a) dañaremos
- (b) dañaré
- (c) dañarás
- (d) dañará

5. What is the vosotros/as form of dañarse in the conditional?

- (a) dañaríais
- (b) dañarías
- (c) dañaría
- (d) dañaría

6. What is the ellos/ellas/Uds. form of dañarse in the present perfect?

- (a) ha dañado
- (b) han dañado
- (c) he dañado
- (d) has dañado

7. What is the yo form of dañarse in the present subjunctive?

- (a) dañes
- (b) dañemos
- (c) dañe
- (d) dañe

8. What is the tú form of dañarse in the imperfect subjunctive (-ra forms)?

- (a) dañáramos
- (b) dañara
- (c) dañaras
- (d) dañara

9. What is the gerund of dañarse?

- (a) dañando
- (b) daño
- (c) dañado
- (d) dañarse

10. What is the past participle of dañarse?

- (a) dañado
- (b) dañarse
- (c) dañando
- (d) dañé

Answer key

1. (a) — In the present indicative, the yo form of dañarse is daño. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 2. (a) — In the preterite, the tú form of dañarse is dañaste. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 3. (c) — In the imperfect, the él/ella/Ud. form of dañarse is dañaba. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 4. (a) — In the future, the nosotros/as form of dañarse is dañaremos. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 5. (a) — In the conditional, the vosotros/as form of dañarse is dañaríais. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 6. (b) — In the present perfect, the ellos/ellas/Uds. form of dañarse is han dañado. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 7. (c) — In the present subjunctive, the yo form of dañarse is dañe. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 8. (c) — In the imperfect subjunctive (-ra forms), the tú form of dañarse is dañaras. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 9. (a) — The gerund of dañarse is dañando. It is used with estar for the progressive: «Estoy dañando». 10. (a) — The past participle of dañarse is dañado. It follows haber in all the perfect tenses: «he dañado».

Frequently asked questions

Is dañarse regular or irregular?

Yes — dañarse is a regular -ar verb and reflexive. Learn the endings once and they work in every tense, with the stem dañ unchanged throughout.

What are the gerund and past participle of dañarse?

The gerund is dañando and the past participle is dañado. Use the gerund with estar for actions in progress («Estoy dañando») and the participle with haber for the perfect tenses («he dañado»).

How do I say «I get damaged» in Spanish?

Say «Me daño todos los días». That is the yo form of the present tense, the form you need for talking about yourself right now.

What is the difference between the preterite and the imperfect of dañarse?

Use the preterite (dañé) for a single finished event and the imperfect (dañaba) for habits and background. «Ayer yo dañé» reports something that happened and ended; «Antes, yo dañaba» describes what used to happen.

When do I use the subjunctive with dañarse?

Use the subjunctive after wishes, doubts, emotions and impersonal expressions — for example «Espero que tú dañes». The trigger sits in the main clause; once it is there, the subjunctive form is required, not a stylistic choice.

What does the -se in dañarse mean?

The -se marks dañarse as reflexive: the action comes back to the subject. You always pair the form with its pronoun — me, te, se, nos, os, se — placed before the conjugated verb. Dropping the pronoun changes the meaning, so treat the pronoun as part of the verb.

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