Extrañarse Conjugation in Spanish

Learning to conjugate extrañarse — «to be surprised» — 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 extrañando and the past participle extrañado, example sentences in every tense, the common mistakes and a quiz with an answer key. A good first sentence to learn is «Me extraño todos los días» — I be surprised every day. Once you can say that, the rest of the table falls into place person by person.

Quick facts

  • Infinitive: extrañarse
  • English: to be surprised
  • Verb type: regular -ar verb, reflexive
  • Ending: -ar
  • Gerund: extrañando
  • Past participle: extrañado
  • Auxiliary verb: haber (all perfect tenses are formed with haber + extrañado)
  • 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 extrañarse, so no pronunciation is given rather than an invented one.

extrañarse is reflexive: Me extraño todos los días; te extrañas 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 extrañarse. 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: extrañando · Past participle: extrañado

Present Indicative

Person Pronoun Form
yo me extraño
tú te extrañas
él/ella/Ud. se extraña
nosotros/as nos extrañamos
vosotros/as os extrañáis
ellos/ellas/Uds. se extrañan

The present is the tense you will use most with extrañarse. It covers daily routines, permanent facts and actions in progress. Learn the yo form extraño 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 extrañé
tú te extrañaste
él/ella/Ud. se extrañó
nosotros/as nos extrañamos
vosotros/as os extrañasteis
ellos/ellas/Uds. se extrañaron

The preterite of extrañarse reports what happened. «Ayer yo extrañé 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 extrañaba
tú te extrañabas
él/ella/Ud. se extrañaba
nosotros/as nos extrañábamos
vosotros/as os extrañabais
ellos/ellas/Uds. se extrañaban

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

Future

Person Pronoun Form
yo me extrañaré
tú te extrañarás
él/ella/Ud. se extrañará
nosotros/as nos extrañaremos
vosotros/as os extrañaréis
ellos/ellas/Uds. se extrañarán

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

Conditional

Person Pronoun Form
yo me extrañaría
tú te extrañarías
él/ella/Ud. se extrañaría
nosotros/as nos extrañaríamos
vosotros/as os extrañaríais
ellos/ellas/Uds. se extrañarían

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

Present Perfect

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

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

Pluperfect

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

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

Future Perfect

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

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

Conditional Perfect

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

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

Present Subjunctive

Person Pronoun Form
yo me extrañe
tú te extrañes
él/ella/Ud. se extrañe
nosotros/as nos extrañemos
vosotros/as os extrañéis
ellos/ellas/Uds. se extrañen

The present subjunctive of extrañarse is the mood of what is wished, doubted or demanded rather than stated as fact. «Espero que tú extrañes» 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 extrañara
tú te extrañaras
él/ella/Ud. se extrañara
nosotros/as nos extrañáramos
vosotros/as os extrañarais
ellos/ellas/Uds. se extrañaran

The imperfect subjunctive of extrañarse handles the hypothetical past and the polite conditional. «Ojalá yo extrañara 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 extraña
él/ella/Ud. se extrañe
nosotros/as nos extrañemos
vosotros/as os extrañad
ellos/ellas/Uds. se extrañen

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

Imperative — Negative

Person Pronoun Form
tú te extrañes
él/ella/Ud. se extrañe
nosotros/as nos extrañemos
vosotros/as os extrañéis
ellos/ellas/Uds. se extrañen

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

Example sentences

  1. Me extraño todos los días. — I be surprised every day.
  2. Ayer me extrañé por la tarde. — Yesterday I bed surprised in the afternoon.
  3. Antes, me extrañaba todos los días. — In the past, I used to be surprised every day.
  4. Mañana me extrañaré sin falta. — Tomorrow I will be surprised without fail.
  5. Si tuviera más tiempo, me extrañaría ahora mismo. — If I had more time, I would be surprised right now.
  6. Hoy me he extrañado dos veces. — Today I have bed surprised twice.
  7. Espero que te extrañes pronto. — I hope You be surprised soon.
  8. Si me extrañara, todo sería distinto. — If I bed surprised, everything would be different.
  9. Ahora mismo me estoy extrañando. — Right now I am bing surprised.
  10. ¡No te extrañes! — Don't be surprised!

Common mistakes

1. Forgetting the reflexive pronoun

Wrong: yo extraño todos los días.

Right: me extraño todos los días.

extrañarse 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 extrañaba.

Right: Ayer me extrañé.

Yesterday's finished action needs the preterite, extrañé. The imperfect extrañaba 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 extrañas.

Right: Espero que te extrañes.

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

4. Using the affirmative imperative after no

Wrong: No te extraña.

Right: No te extrañes.

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

5. Confusing the gerund with the past participle

Wrong: He extrañando.

Right: He extrañado.

The perfect tenses use haber plus the past participle: he extrañado. The gerund extrañando goes with estar for actions in progress («Estoy extrañando»), 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 extrañarse in the present indicative?

- (a) extraño
- (b) extrañamos
- (c) extrañas
- (d) extraña

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

- (a) extrañaste
- (b) extrañó
- (c) extrañamos
- (d) extrañé

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

- (a) extrañabas
- (b) extrañabais
- (c) extrañaba
- (d) extrañaba

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

- (a) extrañaré
- (b) extrañará
- (c) extrañarás
- (d) extrañarán

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

- (a) extrañaría
- (b) extrañarías
- (c) extrañaría
- (d) extrañaríamos

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

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

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

- (a) extrañemos
- (b) extrañes
- (c) extrañe
- (d) extrañe

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

- (a) extrañara
- (b) extrañaras
- (c) extrañáramos
- (d) extrañara

9. What is the gerund of extrañarse?

- (a) extrañado
- (b) extrañarse
- (c) extraño
- (d) extrañando

10. What is the past participle of extrañarse?

- (a) extrañando
- (b) extrañado
- (c) extrañarse
- (d) extrañé

Answer key

1. (d) — In the present indicative, the él/ella/Ud. form of extrañarse is extraña. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 2. (c) — In the preterite, the nosotros/as form of extrañarse is extrañamos. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 3. (b) — In the imperfect, the vosotros/as form of extrañarse is extrañabais. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 4. (d) — In the future, the ellos/ellas/Uds. form of extrañarse is extrañarán. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 5. (a) — In the conditional, the yo form of extrañarse is extrañaría. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 6. (d) — In the present perfect, the tú form of extrañarse is has extrañado. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 7. (c) — In the present subjunctive, the él/ella/Ud. form of extrañarse is extrañe. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 8. (c) — In the imperfect subjunctive (-ra forms), the nosotros/as form of extrañarse is extrañáramos. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 9. (d) — The gerund of extrañarse is extrañando. It is used with estar for the progressive: «Estoy extrañando». 10. (b) — The past participle of extrañarse is extrañado. It follows haber in all the perfect tenses: «he extrañado».

Frequently asked questions

Is extrañarse regular or irregular?

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

What are the gerund and past participle of extrañarse?

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

How do I say «I be surprised» in Spanish?

Say «Me extraño 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 extrañarse?

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

When do I use the subjunctive with extrañarse?

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

The -se marks extrañarse 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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