Impresionar Conjugation in Spanish

impresionar is the Spanish verb for «to impress». As a regular -ar verb verb it follows the -ar endings, and the tables on this page list every form so you never have to guess. You will find the present, the past tenses, the future, the conditional, the perfect tenses, the subjunctive and the imperative, each with a short note on when to use it. Start with the present tense: «Yo impresiono todos los días» — I impress every day. Then work down the page tense by tense, and finish with the quiz.

Quick facts

  • Infinitive: impresionar
  • English: to impress
  • Verb type: regular -ar verb
  • Ending: -ar
  • Gerund: impresionando
  • Past participle: impresionado
  • Auxiliary verb: haber (all perfect tenses are formed with haber + impresionado)

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

Full conjugation tables

Every form below comes from the verified conjugation tables for impresionar. The imperfect subjunctive is shown in its -ra forms; the -se forms use the same stem.

Gerund: impresionando · Past participle: impresionado

Present Indicative

Person Form
yo impresiono
tú impresionas
él/ella/Ud. impresiona
nosotros/as impresionamos
vosotros/as impresionáis
ellos/ellas/Uds. impresionan

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

Preterite

Person Form
yo impresioné
tú impresionaste
él/ella/Ud. impresionó
nosotros/as impresionamos
vosotros/as impresionasteis
ellos/ellas/Uds. impresionaron

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

Imperfect

Person Form
yo impresionaba
tú impresionabas
él/ella/Ud. impresionaba
nosotros/as impresionábamos
vosotros/as impresionabais
ellos/ellas/Uds. impresionaban

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

Future

Person Form
yo impresionaré
tú impresionarás
él/ella/Ud. impresionará
nosotros/as impresionaremos
vosotros/as impresionaréis
ellos/ellas/Uds. impresionarán

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

Conditional

Person Form
yo impresionaría
tú impresionarías
él/ella/Ud. impresionaría
nosotros/as impresionaríamos
vosotros/as impresionaríais
ellos/ellas/Uds. impresionarían

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

Present Perfect

Person Form
yo he impresionado
tú has impresionado
él/ella/Ud. ha impresionado
nosotros/as hemos impresionado
vosotros/as habéis impresionado
ellos/ellas/Uds. han impresionado

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

Pluperfect

Person Form
yo había impresionado
tú habías impresionado
él/ella/Ud. había impresionado
nosotros/as habíamos impresionado
vosotros/as habíais impresionado
ellos/ellas/Uds. habían impresionado

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

Future Perfect

Person Form
yo habré impresionado
tú habrás impresionado
él/ella/Ud. habrá impresionado
nosotros/as habremos impresionado
vosotros/as habréis impresionado
ellos/ellas/Uds. habrán impresionado

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

Conditional Perfect

Person Form
yo habría impresionado
tú habrías impresionado
él/ella/Ud. habría impresionado
nosotros/as habríamos impresionado
vosotros/as habríais impresionado
ellos/ellas/Uds. habrían impresionado

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

Present Subjunctive

Person Form
yo impresione
tú impresiones
él/ella/Ud. impresione
nosotros/as impresionemos
vosotros/as impresionéis
ellos/ellas/Uds. impresionen

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

Imperfect Subjunctive (-ra forms)

Person Form
yo impresionara
tú impresionaras
él/ella/Ud. impresionara
nosotros/as impresionáramos
vosotros/as impresionarais
ellos/ellas/Uds. impresionaran

The imperfect subjunctive of impresionar handles the hypothetical past and the polite conditional. «Ojalá yo impresionara 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 Form
tú impresiona
él/ella/Ud. impresione
nosotros/as impresionemos
vosotros/as impresionad
ellos/ellas/Uds. impresionen

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

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

Imperative — Negative

Person Form
tú impresiones
él/ella/Ud. impresione
nosotros/as impresionemos
vosotros/as impresionéis
ellos/ellas/Uds. impresionen

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

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

Example sentences

  1. Yo impresiono todos los días. — I impress every day.
  2. Ayer yo impresioné por la tarde. — Yesterday I impressed in the afternoon.
  3. Antes, yo impresionaba todos los días. — In the past, I used to impress every day.
  4. Mañana yo impresionaré sin falta. — Tomorrow I will impress without fail.
  5. Si tuviera más tiempo, yo impresionaría ahora mismo. — If I had more time, I would impress right now.
  6. Hoy yo he impresionado dos veces. — Today I have impressed twice.
  7. Espero que tú impresiones pronto. — I hope You impress soon.
  8. Si yo impresionara, todo sería distinto. — If I impressed, everything would be different.
  9. Ahora mismo yo estoy impresionando. — Right now I am impressing.
  10. ¡impresiona, por favor! — Impress, please!

Common mistakes

1. Using the imperfect for a finished event

Wrong: Ayer yo impresionaba.

Right: Ayer yo impresioné.

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

2. Using the indicative after a subjunctive trigger

Wrong: Espero que tú impresionas.

Right: Espero que tú impresiones.

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

3. Using the affirmative imperative after no

Wrong: No impresiona.

Right: No impresiones.

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

4. Using the infinitive instead of a conjugated form

Wrong: Yo impresionar todos los días.

Right: Yo impresiono todos los días.

The infinitive impresionar names the action; it never works as the main verb of a sentence. Conjugate it for the person: yo impresiono.

5. Confusing the gerund with the past participle

Wrong: He impresionando.

Right: He impresionado.

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

Quiz

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

1. What is the ellos/ellas/Uds. form of impresionar in the present indicative?

- (a) impresiono
- (b) impresiona
- (c) impresionas
- (d) impresionan

2. What is the yo form of impresionar in the preterite?

- (a) impresionamos
- (b) impresionaste
- (c) impresioné
- (d) impresionó

3. What is the tú form of impresionar in the imperfect?

- (a) impresionábamos
- (b) impresionabas
- (c) impresionaba
- (d) impresionaba

4. What is the él/ella/Ud. form of impresionar in the future?

- (a) impresionarás
- (b) impresionaré
- (c) impresionará
- (d) impresionaremos

5. What is the nosotros/as form of impresionar in the conditional?

- (a) impresionaría
- (b) impresionarías
- (c) impresionaríamos
- (d) impresionaría

6. What is the vosotros/as form of impresionar in the present perfect?

- (a) has impresionado
- (b) habéis impresionado
- (c) ha impresionado
- (d) he impresionado

7. What is the ellos/ellas/Uds. form of impresionar in the present subjunctive?

- (a) impresiones
- (b) impresionen
- (c) impresione
- (d) impresione

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

- (a) impresionara
- (b) impresionáramos
- (c) impresionara
- (d) impresionaras

9. What is the gerund of impresionar?

- (a) impresiono
- (b) impresionando
- (c) impresionar
- (d) impresionado

10. What is the past participle of impresionar?

- (a) impresioné
- (b) impresionando
- (c) impresionar
- (d) impresionado

Answer key

1. (d) — In the present indicative, the ellos/ellas/Uds. form of impresionar is impresionan. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 2. (c) — In the preterite, the yo form of impresionar is impresioné. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 3. (b) — In the imperfect, the tú form of impresionar is impresionabas. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 4. (c) — In the future, the él/ella/Ud. form of impresionar is impresionará. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 5. (c) — In the conditional, the nosotros/as form of impresionar is impresionaríamos. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 6. (b) — In the present perfect, the vosotros/as form of impresionar is habéis impresionado. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 7. (b) — In the present subjunctive, the ellos/ellas/Uds. form of impresionar is impresionen. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 8. (a) — In the imperfect subjunctive (-ra forms), the yo form of impresionar is impresionara. The other options are the same tense but different persons. 9. (b) — The gerund of impresionar is impresionando. It is used with estar for the progressive: «Estoy impresionando». 10. (d) — The past participle of impresionar is impresionado. It follows haber in all the perfect tenses: «he impresionado».

Frequently asked questions

Is impresionar regular or irregular?

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

What are the gerund and past participle of impresionar?

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

How do I say «I impress» in Spanish?

Say «Yo impresiono 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 impresionar?

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

When do I use the subjunctive with impresionar?

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

How do I use impresionar in the present perfect?

Put haber in the present before the past participle: «Hoy yo he impresionado». The participle impresionado never changes for person — only haber changes — so once you know the participle, the whole perfect tense follows.

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