Enojar Conjugation in Spanish
Introduction
enojar means "to anger" in English, and it is one of the verbs you will meet constantly in everyday Spanish — for making someone angry. Learning it properly means more than memorising one form: the verb changes across thirteen tenses, and this page gives you every one of them, with the exact forms from the VerbFlow engine, so you can check any person or tense in seconds. Enojar is a regular -ar verb verb, and it is regular in every tense. That matters because the patterns on this page are the patterns you will reuse every time you speak or write. Work through the tables first, then read the notes under each tense — they explain when to use each tense and what to watch out for with this verb in particular. A natural example is: A Lucía le enoja la mentira. — "The the lie angers Lucía." Once you can say that sentence confidently, try changing the person and the tense using the tables below.
Quick facts
| Infinitive | enojar |
| Translation | to anger |
| Verb type | Regular -ar verb |
| Gerund | enojando |
| Past participle | enojado |
| Auxiliary | haber (all compound tenses) |
| Irregular tenses | regular in every tense |
Gustar-like verb: the thing that causes the feeling is the subject, and the person who feels it is the indirect object (a Lucía le enoja la mentira). The verb agrees with the thing, not with the person — that is why the él/ella form appears so often with this verb.
Full conjugation of enojar
Present indicative
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | enojo |
| tú | enojas |
| él / ella / Ud. | enoja |
| nosotros / nosotras | enojamos |
| vosotros / vosotras | enojáis |
| ellos / ellas / Uds. | enojan |
Preterite
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | enojé |
| tú | enojaste |
| él / ella / Ud. | enojó |
| nosotros / nosotras | enojamos |
| vosotros / vosotras | enojasteis |
| ellos / ellas / Uds. | enojaron |
Imperfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | enojaba |
| tú | enojabas |
| él / ella / Ud. | enojaba |
| nosotros / nosotras | enojábamos |
| vosotros / vosotras | enojabais |
| ellos / ellas / Uds. | enojaban |
Future
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | enojaré |
| tú | enojarás |
| él / ella / Ud. | enojará |
| nosotros / nosotras | enojaremos |
| vosotros / vosotras | enojaréis |
| ellos / ellas / Uds. | enojarán |
Conditional
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | enojaría |
| tú | enojarías |
| él / ella / Ud. | enojaría |
| nosotros / nosotras | enojaríamos |
| vosotros / vosotras | enojaríais |
| ellos / ellas / Uds. | enojarían |
Present subjunctive
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | enoje |
| tú | enojes |
| él / ella / Ud. | enoje |
| nosotros / nosotras | enojemos |
| vosotros / vosotras | enojéis |
| ellos / ellas / Uds. | enojen |
Imperfect subjunctive (-ra forms)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | enojara |
| tú | enojaras |
| él / ella / Ud. | enojara |
| nosotros / nosotras | enojáramos |
| vosotros / vosotras | enojarais |
| ellos / ellas / Uds. | enojaran |
Present perfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | he enojado |
| tú | has enojado |
| él / ella / Ud. | ha enojado |
| nosotros / nosotras | hemos enojado |
| vosotros / vosotras | habéis enojado |
| ellos / ellas / Uds. | han enojado |
Pluperfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | había enojado |
| tú | habías enojado |
| él / ella / Ud. | había enojado |
| nosotros / nosotras | habíamos enojado |
| vosotros / vosotras | habíais enojado |
| ellos / ellas / Uds. | habían enojado |
Future perfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | habré enojado |
| tú | habrás enojado |
| él / ella / Ud. | habrá enojado |
| nosotros / nosotras | habremos enojado |
| vosotros / vosotras | habréis enojado |
| ellos / ellas / Uds. | habrán enojado |
Conditional perfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | habría enojado |
| tú | habrías enojado |
| él / ella / Ud. | habría enojado |
| nosotros / nosotras | habríamos enojado |
| vosotros / vosotras | habríais enojado |
| ellos / ellas / Uds. | habrían enojado |
Imperative — affirmative
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| tú | enoja |
| él / ella / Ud. | enoje |
| nosotros / nosotras | enojemos |
| vosotros / vosotras | enojad |
| ellos / ellas / Uds. | enojen |
Imperative — negative
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| tú | enojes |
| él / ella / Ud. | enoje |
| nosotros / nosotras | enojemos |
| vosotros / vosotras | enojéis |
| ellos / ellas / Uds. | enojen |
Gerund: enojando · Past participle: enojado
Enojar in every tense — notes and examples
Present indicative
The present is the tense for habits, facts and what is happening now. It is the first tense to master, because the present subjunctive and the affirmative imperative are both built from the present yo form. Example: A Lucía le enoja la mentira. — "The the lie angers Lucía."
Preterite
The preterite is for completed actions in the past — things that started and finished at a definite moment. Use it for a single event, a sequence of events, or an action with a clear end. Example: Ayer, a Lucía le enojó la mentira. — "Yesterday, the the lie angered Lucía."
Imperfect
The imperfect is for the past without a definite end: habits, background scenes, descriptions and actions in progress when something else happened. It never states when the action finished. Example: Antes, a Lucía le enojaba la mentira. — "Before, the the lie angered Lucía."
Future
The future is for what will happen, and also for guesses about the present ("I wonder if…"). For regular verbs it is the infinitive plus the endings -é, -ás, -á, -emos, -éis, -án. Example: Mañana, a Lucía le enojará la mentira. — "Tomorrow, the the lie will anger Lucía."
Conditional
The conditional is for what would happen — polite requests, hypothetical results and reported expectations. It shares its stem with the future, so any irregular future stem appears here too. Example: A Lucía le enojaría la mentira si lo viera. — "The the lie would anger Lucía if she saw it."
Present subjunctive
The present subjunctive is for wishes, doubts, emotions and other non-facts after que, and after expressions such as ojalá, es importante que or no creo que. It is not a tense for stating facts. Example: Espero que a Lucía le enoje la mentira. — "I hope the the lie angers Lucía."
Imperfect subjunctive (-ra forms)
The imperfect subjunctive (-ra forms) is for wishes and doubts about the past, and for the if-part of hypothetical sentences (si + imperfect subjunctive, conditional). This page shows the -ra forms from the engine. Example: Si a Lucía le enojara la mentira, sonreiría. — "If the the lie angered Lucía, she would smile."
Present perfect
The present perfect (haber + past participle) is for past actions connected to the present — recent events, experience, or something that has just happened. The auxiliary is always haber. Example: A Lucía le ha enojado la mentira. — "The the lie has angered Lucía."
Pluperfect
The pluperfect (había + past participle) is the past of the past: something that had already happened before another past event. Example: A Lucía le había enojado la mentira. — "The the lie had angered Lucía."
Future perfect
The future perfect (habré + past participle) is for something that will already be finished by a future moment, or for a guess about the past. It is less common in speech than the simple future. Example: A Lucía le habrá enojado la mentira. — "The the lie will have angered Lucía."
Conditional perfect
The conditional perfect (habría + past participle) is for what would have happened — the past of the conditional, used for regrets and unreal past conditions. Example: A Lucía le habría enojado la mentira. — "The the lie would have angered Lucía."
Imperative — affirmative
The affirmative imperative is for direct orders, instructions and invitations. The tú form comes from the present él/ella form, and the formal, nosotros and plural forms come from the present subjunctive. Example: ¡enoje a los niños con la mentira, por favor! — "Please anger the children with the the lie!"
Imperative — negative
The negative imperative (no + subjunctive) is for telling someone not to do something. All five persons come from the present subjunctive, which is why they look different from the affirmative tú form. Example: No enojes a los niños con la mentira. — "Do not anger the children with the the lie."
Example sentences with enojar
A Lucía le enoja la mentira. — "The the lie angers Lucía."
A Lucía y a Juan les enojan su comentario. — "The his comment anger Lucía and Juan."
Ayer, a Lucía le enojó la mentira. — "Yesterday, the the lie angered Lucía."
Ayer, a todos les enojaron su comentario. — "Yesterday, the his comment angered everyone."
De niña, a Lucía le enojaba la mentira. — "As a child, the the lie angered Lucía."
Mañana, a Lucía le enojará su comentario. — "Tomorrow, the his comment will anger Lucía."
A Lucía le enojaría la mentira si pudiera verlo. — "The the lie would anger Lucía if she could see it."
A Lucía le ha enojado la mentira muchas veces. — "The the lie has angered Lucía many times."
Espero que a Lucía le enoje la mentira. — "I hope the the lie angers Lucía."
La historia me está enojando ahora mismo. — "The story is angering me right now."
Common mistakes with enojar
1. Dropping the accent on the preterite yo form
The preterite yo form is enojé — with the accent. Without it the word is misspelled, and in some verbs the accent is the only thing separating one tense from another.
2. Confusing enojar with molestar (to bother, to annoy)
enojar means "to anger", while molestar means "to bother, to annoy". They overlap in English but they are not interchangeable in Spanish: use enojar when you mean making someone angry, and molestar for its own meaning. Check the conjugation of molestar before choosing.
3. Mixing up the preterite and the imperfect
Ayer yo enojé la mentira (preterite: one finished event yesterday) is not the same as antes yo enojaba la mentira (imperfect: what used to happen). If you can add "yesterday" or "last week", you usually want the preterite; if you can add "used to", you want the imperfect.
4. Saying ✗ yo enojo when you mean the feeling
With verbs like enojar the thing that causes the feeling is the subject, and the person is the indirect object: a Lucía le enoja la mentira. Saying yo enojo la mentira means you do the angering, which is not what you mean here.
5. Forgetting that the verb agrees with the thing, not the person
Me enojan su comentario is correct when the subject is plural — the verb agrees with his comment, not with "me". Singular me enoja su comentario would be wrong with a plural subject.
Quiz: enojar
1. A Lucía le ___ la mentira.
a. enojo b. enoja c. enojan
2. Ayer, a Lucía le ___ la mentira.
a. enojo b. enojó c. enoja
3. Antes, a Lucía le ___ la mentira.
a. enojo b. enojaba c. enoja
4. Mañana, a Lucía le ___ la mentira.
a. enojo b. enojará c. enoja
5. A Lucía le ___ la mentira si lo viera.
a. enojo b. enojaría c. enoja
6. Espero que a Lucía le ___ la mentira.
a. enojo b. enoje c. enoja
7. A Lucía le ___ la mentira varias veces.
a. enojo b. ha enojado c. enoja
8. Me ___ su comentario.
a. enojo b. enojan c. enoja
9. La historia me está ___ ahora mismo.
a. enojado b. enojando c. enoja
10. A Lucía le ha ___ la mentira muchas veces.
a. enojando b. enojado c. enoja
Answer key
enoja — present tense, él/ella form — the thing is the subject.
enojó — preterite, él/ella form — one finished event yesterday.
enojaba — imperfect, él/ella form — a past habit or background.
enojará — future, él/ella form.
enojaría — conditional, él/ella form — a hypothetical.
enoje — present subjunctive after 'espero que'.
ha enojado — present perfect, él/ella form (haber + participle).
enojan — present tense, ellos/ellas form — plural subject, so plural verb.
enojando — gerund — the progressive is estar + gerund.
enojado — past participle — the present perfect is haber + participle.
Frequently asked questions about enojar
What does enojar mean in English?
Enojar means "to anger". It is used for making someone angry. A simple example is yo enojo la mentira — "I anger the lie."
Is enojar regular or irregular?
Enojar is a regular -ar verb verb, and it is regular in every tense. The forms that most often catch learners out are the present yo form enojo, the preterite yo form enojé and the past participle enojado — learn those three first, then fill in the rest from the tables above.
What is the gerund and the past participle of enojar?
The gerund is enojando (used for the progressive: estoy enojando) and the past participle is enojado (used with haber in all perfect tenses: he enojado). Both forms are used constantly, so they are worth memorising on their own.
How do I say "I anger" in the past?
It depends on the meaning. For one finished action use the preterite: ayer yo enojé la mentira — "yesterday I angered the lie". For a past habit or background use the imperfect: antes yo enojaba la mentira — "before, I angered the lie". The mistake most learners make is using one for the other.
Does enojar take the subjunctive?
Not usually. Enojar on its own takes the indicative — yo enojo la mentira. You will meet the subjunctive with enojar only inside a larger construction that itself triggers it, such as no creo que or es importante que, and then the subjunctive form is enoje.