Enterarse Conjugation in Spanish

Learning to conjugate enterarse — «to find out» — opens up a whole set of sentences you will use every day. It is a regular -ar verb, reflexive verb, and this page covers it completely: thirteen tenses, the gerund enterando and the past participle enterado, example sentences in every tense, the common mistakes and a quiz with an answer key. A good first sentence to learn is «Me entero todos los días» — I find out every day. Once you can say that, the rest of the table falls into place person by person.

Quick facts

  • Infinitive: enterarse
  • English: to find out
  • Verb type: regular -ar verb, reflexive
  • Ending: -ar
  • Gerund: enterando
  • Past participle: enterado
  • Auxiliary verb: haber (all perfect tenses are formed with haber + enterado)
  • 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 enterarse, so no pronunciation is given rather than an invented one.

enterarse is reflexive: Me entero todos los días; te enteras 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 enterarse. 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: enterando · Past participle: enterado

Present Indicative

Person Pronoun Form
yo me entero
tú te enteras
él/ella/Ud. se entera
nosotros/as nos enteramos
vosotros/as os enteráis
ellos/ellas/Uds. se enteran

The present is the tense you will use most with enterarse. It covers daily routines, permanent facts and actions in progress. Learn the yo form entero first, then the tú and él forms, which are the ones that change the stem in stem-changing verbs.

Preterite

Person Pronoun Form
yo me enteré
tú te enteraste
él/ella/Ud. se enteró
nosotros/as nos enteramos
vosotros/as os enterasteis
ellos/ellas/Uds. se enteraron

The preterite of enterarse reports what happened. «Ayer yo enteré por la tarde» places the action firmly in finished time. It is the tense of stories and reports, not of background description.

Imperfect

Person Pronoun Form
yo me enteraba
tú te enterabas
él/ella/Ud. se enteraba
nosotros/as nos enterábamos
vosotros/as os enterabais
ellos/ellas/Uds. se enteraban

The imperfect of enterarse paints the background of a past scene: repeated actions, states and descriptions. «Antes, yo enteraba todos los días» is the pattern. Pair it with the preterite when one event interrupts another.

Future

Person Pronoun Form
yo me enteraré
tú te enterarás
él/ella/Ud. se enterará
nosotros/as nos enteraremos
vosotros/as os enteraréis
ellos/ellas/Uds. se enterarán

The future of enterarse looks forward: what will happen tomorrow, next week or next year. «Mañana yo enteraré sin falta» is the pattern. Remember that the future can also express probability about the present in Spanish.

Conditional

Person Pronoun Form
yo me enteraría
tú te enterarías
él/ella/Ud. se enteraría
nosotros/as nos enteraríamos
vosotros/as os enteraríais
ellos/ellas/Uds. se enterarían

The conditional of enterarse is the tense of «would»: what you would do, what would happen, what you would like. «Si pudiera, yo enteraría sin dudarlo» shows the pattern. It is built on the infinitive, just like the future.

Present Perfect

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

The present perfect of enterarse says «have done»: the action is finished but its result still matters now. «Hoy yo he enterado dos veces» is the pattern. Learn the participle enterado well — every perfect tense depends on it.

Pluperfect

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

The pluperfect of enterarse steps one event further back than the preterite. «Antes de salir, yo había enterado» is the pattern: first this happened, then the story moved on. It is haber in the imperfect plus enterado.

Future Perfect

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

The future perfect of enterarse combines the future of haber with enterado. «Para el viernes, yo habré enterado ya» is the pattern. Use it when the completion matters more than the action itself.

Conditional Perfect

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

The conditional perfect of enterarse is the tense of «would have done». «Yo habría enterado si hubiera podido» is the pattern. It is built from haber in the conditional plus enterado.

Present Subjunctive

Person Pronoun Form
yo me entere
tú te enteres
él/ella/Ud. se entere
nosotros/as nos enteremos
vosotros/as os enteréis
ellos/ellas/Uds. se enteren

The present subjunctive of enterarse is the mood of what is wished, doubted or demanded rather than stated as fact. «Espero que tú enteres» is the pattern. If the trigger is in the past, switch to the imperfect subjunctive instead.

Imperfect Subjunctive (-ra forms)

Person Pronoun Form
yo me enterara
tú te enteraras
él/ella/Ud. se enterara
nosotros/as nos enteráramos
vosotros/as os enterarais
ellos/ellas/Uds. se enteraran

The imperfect subjunctive of enterarse handles the hypothetical past and the polite conditional. «Ojalá yo enterara más a menudo» is the pattern. The -ra forms in the table are the standard ones; the -se forms use the same stem with -se endings.

Imperative — Affirmative

Person Pronoun Form
tú te entera
él/ella/Ud. se entere
nosotros/as nos enteremos
vosotros/as os enterad
ellos/ellas/Uds. se enteren

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 of enterarse is for orders and instructions. «¡entera, por favor!» is the pattern. Remember there is no yo form in the imperative, and the nosotros form doubles as a suggestion: «¡enteremos!» means «let's do it».

Imperative — Negative

Person Pronoun Form
tú te enteres
él/ella/Ud. se entere
nosotros/as nos enteremos
vosotros/as os enteréis
ellos/ellas/Uds. se enteren

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 of enterarse is built on the present subjunctive: «¡No enteres!». Learn it as a set with the subjunctive table above, and never follow no with the affirmative command form.

Example sentences

  1. Me entero todos los días. — I find out every day.
  2. Ayer me enteré por la tarde. — Yesterday I found out in the afternoon.
  3. Antes, me enteraba todos los días. — In the past, I used to find out every day.
  4. Mañana me enteraré sin falta. — Tomorrow I will find out without fail.
  5. Si tuviera más tiempo, me enteraría ahora mismo. — If I had more time, I would find out right now.
  6. Hoy me he enterado dos veces. — Today I have found out twice.
  7. Espero que te enteres pronto. — I hope You find out soon.
  8. Si me enterara, todo sería distinto. — If I found out, everything would be different.
  9. Ahora mismo me estoy enterando. — Right now I am finding out.
  10. ¡No te enteres! — Don't find out!

Common mistakes

1. Forgetting the reflexive pronoun

Wrong: yo entero todos los días.

Right: me entero todos los días.

enterarse 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 enteraba.

Right: Ayer me enteré.

Yesterday's finished action needs the preterite, enteré. The imperfect enteraba 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 enteras.

Right: Espero que te enteres.

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

4. Using the affirmative imperative after no

Wrong: No te entera.

Right: No te enteres.

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

5. Confusing the gerund with the past participle

Wrong: He enterando.

Right: He enterado.

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

Quiz

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

1. What is the él/ella/Ud. form of enterarse in the present indicative?

- (a) entero
- (b) enteramos
- (c) enteras
- (d) entera

2. What is the nosotros/as form of enterarse in the preterite?

- (a) enteré
- (b) enteramos
- (c) enteró
- (d) enteraste

3. What is the vosotros/as form of enterarse in the imperfect?

- (a) enteraba
- (b) enteraba
- (c) enterabais
- (d) enterabas

4. What is the ellos/ellas/Uds. form of enterarse in the future?

- (a) enterará
- (b) enterarán
- (c) enterarás
- (d) enteraré

5. What is the yo form of enterarse in the conditional?

- (a) enterarías
- (b) enteraríamos
- (c) enteraría
- (d) enteraría

6. What is the tú form of enterarse in the present perfect?

- (a) has enterado
- (b) he enterado
- (c) hemos enterado
- (d) ha enterado

7. What is the él/ella/Ud. form of enterarse in the present subjunctive?

- (a) enteres
- (b) enteremos
- (c) entere
- (d) entere

8. What is the nosotros/as form of enterarse in the imperfect subjunctive (-ra forms)?

- (a) enterara
- (b) enteráramos
- (c) enterara
- (d) enteraras

9. What is the gerund of enterarse?

- (a) enterando
- (b) entero
- (c) enterarse
- (d) enterado

10. What is the past participle of enterarse?

- (a) enterando
- (b) enteré
- (c) enterado
- (d) enterarse

Answer key

1. (d) — In the present indicative, the él/ella/Ud. form of enterarse is entera. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 2. (b) — In the preterite, the nosotros/as form of enterarse is enteramos. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 3. (c) — In the imperfect, the vosotros/as form of enterarse is enterabais. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 4. (b) — In the future, the ellos/ellas/Uds. form of enterarse is enterarán. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 5. (c) — In the conditional, the yo form of enterarse is enteraría. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 6. (a) — In the present perfect, the tú form of enterarse is has enterado. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 7. (c) — In the present subjunctive, the él/ella/Ud. form of enterarse is entere. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 8. (b) — In the imperfect subjunctive (-ra forms), the nosotros/as form of enterarse is enteráramos. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 9. (a) — The gerund of enterarse is enterando. It is used with estar for the progressive: «Estoy enterando». 10. (c) — The past participle of enterarse is enterado. It follows haber in all the perfect tenses: «he enterado».

Frequently asked questions

Is enterarse regular or irregular?

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

What are the gerund and past participle of enterarse?

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

How do I say «I find out» in Spanish?

Say «Me entero 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 enterarse?

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

When do I use the subjunctive with enterarse?

Use the subjunctive after wishes, doubts, emotions and impersonal expressions — for example «Espero que tú enteres». 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 enterarse mean?

The -se marks enterarse 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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