Facilitar Examples, Sentences and Quiz in Spanish

facilitar means to make easy, to provide, and it is a verb you will meet in everyday Spanish again and again. Facilitar means to make easy or to provide, and it is used for making a task easier for students, providing access to a building and providing information to a customer. It is the opposite of dificultar, and it is a fully regular -ar verb. This page puts facilitar to work: twelve example sentences in different tenses and persons, grouped by use, then two short dialogues where the verb appears naturally, then the common mistakes to avoid, and finally a ten-question quiz with explained answers. Every Spanish form on this page comes from the verified conjugation tables for facilitar, and the full tables are on the facilitar conjugation page if you need to check a form.

Example sentences

Everyday uses

  1. Yo facilito la tarea a los alumnos. — I make easy the task for the students.
  2. Él facilita el acceso al edificio. — He/she makes easy access to the building.
  3. Ayer, yo facilité la información al cliente. — Yesterday, I made easy the information to the customer.
  4. Antes, nosotros facilitábamos el trabajo con una guía clara. — Before, we used to make easy the work with a clear guide.

In other tenses

  1. Mañana, tú facilitarás la tarea a los alumnos. — Tomorrow, you will make easy the task for the students.
  2. Yo facilitaría el acceso al edificio. — I would make easy access to the building.
  3. Él ha facilitado la información al cliente. — He/she has made easy the information to the customer.
  4. Espero que él facilite el trabajo con una guía clara. — I hope he/she makes easy the work with a clear guide.

With other people

  1. Nosotros facilitamos la tarea a los alumnos. — We make easy the task for the students.
  2. Vosotros facilitáis el acceso al edificio. — You all make easy access to the building.
  3. Antes, ellos facilitaban la información al cliente. — Before, they used to make easy the information to the customer.
  4. Mañana, él facilitará el trabajo con una guía clara. — Tomorrow, he/she will make easy the work with a clear guide.

Facilitar in context

Two short dialogues that use facilitar the way people really use it. Read them aloud — the verb forms will stick much faster in a conversation than in a table.

Dialogue 1: today and yesterday

  • Ana: "Hola, ¿qué tal?" — "Hello, how are you?"
  • Luis: "Hoy facilito la tarea a los alumnos." — "Today I make easy the task for the students."
  • Ana: "¿Y ayer?" — "And yesterday?"
  • Luis: "Ayer, facilité la información al cliente." — "Yesterday I made easy the information to the customer."
  • Ana: "¿Y mañana, tú facilitarás el acceso al edificio?" — "And tomorrow, will you will make easy access to the building?"
  • Luis: "Sí, claro. Y tú también." — "Yes, of course. And you too."

Dialogue 2: making plans

  • Marta: "Mañana, nosotros facilitamos el trabajo con una guía clara." — "Tomorrow we make easy the work with a clear guide."
  • Carlos: "Perfecto. Yo facilitaría el acceso al edificio si tuviera más tiempo." — "Perfect. I would would make easy access to the building if I had more time."
  • Marta: "Espero que él facilite la tarea a los alumnos." — "I hope he makes easy the task for the students."
  • Carlos: "Seguro que sí. Él ya ha facilitado la información al cliente." — "Surely. He has already has made easy the information to the customer."
  • Marta: "Vale, nos vemos mañana." — "OK, see you tomorrow."

Notice how the same verb changes with the tense: the present for the plan, the conditional for the wish, the subjunctive after espero que, and the present perfect for what has already happened. That is the whole point of learning a verb across its tenses, not just in one form.

Common mistakes

  1. Wrong: Yo facilita la tarea a los alumnos. — Right: Yo facilito la tarea a los alumnos. — The person matters: facilita is the él/ella/Ud. form, while the yo form is facilito. Using the third-person form with yo is one of the most common beginner errors.
  2. Wrong: Vosotros facilitais el acceso al edificio. — Right: Vosotros facilitáis el acceso al edificio. — The vosotros present form carries a written accent: facilitáis, not facilitais. The accent marks the stressed vowel.
  3. Wrong: Treating facilitar and dificultar as identical in every context. — Right: Facilitar means to make easy, to provide, while dificultar means to make difficult, its opposite. — They overlap, but each has uses the other does not: facilitar fits sentences such as Facilito la tarea a los alumnos, while dificultar belongs in a different sentence. Check the meaning you want before choosing.
  4. Wrong: Yo soy facilitado el acceso al edificio. — Right: Yo he facilitado el acceso al edificio. — Spanish perfect tenses use haber, not ser: he facilitado, has facilitado, ha facilitado. Ser plus the participle makes a passive, not a perfect tense.
  5. Wrong: De niño, yo facilité la información al cliente todos los días. — Right: De niño, yo facilitaba la información al cliente todos los días. — For a repeated habit in the past, use the imperfect (facilitaba), not the preterite. The preterite (facilité) is for one finished action.

Quiz: test yourself

Ten questions on facilitar: four on the forms, three on the meaning, and three on spotting the correct sentence. Check the answer key below.

  1. Complete the sentence: Yo ___ la tarea a los alumnos. (present tense) A. facilito B. facilitas C. facilita D. facilitamos

  2. Complete the sentence: Él ___ el acceso al edificio. (preterite tense) A. facilité B. facilitaste C. facilitamos D. facilitó

  3. Complete the sentence: Tú ___ la información al cliente. (future tense) A. facilitará B. facilitaremos C. facilitarás D. facilitaré

  4. Complete the sentence: Nosotros ___ el trabajo con una guía clara. (imperfect tense) A. facilitabais B. facilitábamos C. facilitaba D. facilitabas

  5. What does "Yo facilito la tarea a los alumnos." mean in English? A. I make easy the task for the students. B. I make easy access to the building. C. I make easy the information to the customer. D. I make easy the work with a clear guide.

  6. What does "Él facilitó el acceso al edificio." mean in English? A. He/she made easy the task for the students. B. He/she made easy the information to the customer. C. He/she made easy the work with a clear guide. D. He/she made easy access to the building.

  7. What does "Nosotros facilitaremos la información al cliente." mean in English? A. We will make easy access to the building. B. We will make easy the work with a clear guide. C. We will make easy the information to the customer. D. We will make easy the task for the students.

  8. Which sentence is correct? A. Yo facilitan el acceso al edificio. B. Yo facilita el acceso al edificio. C. Yo facilito el acceso al edificio.

  9. Which sentence is correct? A. Él facilité la información al cliente. B. Él facilitó la información al cliente. C. Él facilitaron la información al cliente.

  10. Which sentence is correct? A. Espero que yo facilite el trabajo con una guía clara. B. Yo faciliten el trabajo con una guía clara. C. Yo facilite el trabajo con una guía clara.

Answer key

  1. facilito — The yo present form of facilitar is facilito.
  2. facilitó — The el preterite form of facilitar is facilitó.
  3. facilitarás — The tu future form of facilitar is facilitarás.
  4. facilitábamos — The nosotros imperfect form of facilitar is facilitábamos.
  5. I make easy the task for the students. — The Spanish sentence uses the present form facilito, so the English is "I make easy the task for the students." The other options use a different object or situation.
  6. He/she made easy access to the building. — The Spanish sentence uses the preterite form facilitó, so the English is "He/she made easy access to the building." The other options use a different object or situation.
  7. We will make easy the information to the customer. — The Spanish sentence uses the future form facilitaremos, so the English is "We will make easy the information to the customer." The other options use a different object or situation.
  8. Yo facilito el acceso al edificio. — The correct sentence is "Yo facilito el acceso al edificio." The other sentences use the wrong form or the wrong person for the subject.
  9. Él facilitó la información al cliente. — The correct sentence is "Él facilitó la información al cliente." The other sentences use the wrong form or the wrong person for the subject.
  10. Espero que yo facilite el trabajo con una guía clara. — The correct sentence is "Espero que yo facilite el trabajo con una guía clara." The other sentences use the wrong form or the wrong person for the subject.

Frequently asked questions

What does facilitar mean, and when do I use it?

Facilitar means to make easy, to provide. Facilitar means to make easy or to provide, and it is used for making a task easier for students, providing access to a building and providing information to a customer. It is the opposite of dificultar, and it is a fully regular -ar verb. A good first sentence to remember is Yo facilito la tarea a los alumnos. — "I make easy the task for the students."

What is the difference between facilitar and dificultar?

Facilitar means to make easy, to provide, while dificultar means to make difficult, its opposite. They appear in similar situations, but they are not interchangeable: use facilitar when you mean to make easy, to provide, as in Yo facilito el acceso al edificio., and use dificultar for to make difficult, its opposite.

How do I say "I make easy" in the past?

For one finished action, use the preterite: Yo facilité el acceso al edificio.. For a repeated habit or background in the past, use the imperfect: Yo facilitaba la información al cliente.. For something that has just happened, use the present perfect: Yo he facilitado el acceso al edificio..

How do I practise facilitar?

Start with the facilitar conjugation page for the full tables, then the facilitar in the present tense page for the tense in focus, and use the Spanish Verb Quiz to test the forms under pressure. Facilitar is fully regular: facilité, facilitaba, facilitaré. Facilitar algo a alguien is to make it easy for them.

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