Planificar Conjugation in Spanish
The Spanish verb planificar means to plan, and it is a verb you will use again and again once you know it. Planificar is a spelling-changing -ar (c → qu before e) verb, so the tables below show you exactly how it behaves in every tense. It has a spelling change (c → qu before e), which keeps the pronunciation of the stem the same when the ending changes. On this page you will find the full conjugation of planificar in all thirteen tenses, notes on when to use each one, example sentences, the mistakes learners make most often, a ten-question quiz and answers to the questions students ask about this verb. For example, in the present tense you say Yo planifico un viaje — "I plan a trip" — and in the preterite you say Yo planifiqué las vacaciones — "I planed the holidays". Work through the tables below, read the notes for each tense, and then test yourself with the examples, the common mistakes and the quiz at the end of the page.
Quick facts
- Infinitive: planificar
- English: to plan
- Verb type: spelling-changing -ar (c → qu before e) verb
- Ending: -ar
- Gerund: planificando
- Past participle: planificado
- Auxiliary verb: haber (all perfect tenses are formed with haber + planificado)
Pronunciation is not listed on this page: the verified tables do not include IPA for planificar, so no pronunciation is given rather than an invented one.
Full conjugation tables
Every form below comes from the verified conjugation tables for planificar. 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: planificando · Past participle: planificado
Present indicative
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | planifico |
| tú | planificas |
| él/ella/Ud. | planifica |
| nosotros/as | planificamos |
| vosotros/as | planificáis |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | planifican |
Preterite
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | planifiqué |
| tú | planificaste |
| él/ella/Ud. | planificó |
| nosotros/as | planificamos |
| vosotros/as | planificasteis |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | planificaron |
Imperfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | planificaba |
| tú | planificabas |
| él/ella/Ud. | planificaba |
| nosotros/as | planificábamos |
| vosotros/as | planificabais |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | planificaban |
Future
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | planificaré |
| tú | planificarás |
| él/ella/Ud. | planificará |
| nosotros/as | planificaremos |
| vosotros/as | planificaréis |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | planificarán |
Conditional
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | planificaría |
| tú | planificarías |
| él/ella/Ud. | planificaría |
| nosotros/as | planificaríamos |
| vosotros/as | planificaríais |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | planificarían |
Present perfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | he planificado |
| tú | has planificado |
| él/ella/Ud. | ha planificado |
| nosotros/as | hemos planificado |
| vosotros/as | habéis planificado |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | han planificado |
Pluperfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | había planificado |
| tú | habías planificado |
| él/ella/Ud. | había planificado |
| nosotros/as | habíamos planificado |
| vosotros/as | habíais planificado |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | habían planificado |
Future perfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | habré planificado |
| tú | habrás planificado |
| él/ella/Ud. | habrá planificado |
| nosotros/as | habremos planificado |
| vosotros/as | habréis planificado |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | habrán planificado |
Conditional perfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | habría planificado |
| tú | habrías planificado |
| él/ella/Ud. | habría planificado |
| nosotros/as | habríamos planificado |
| vosotros/as | habríais planificado |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | habrían planificado |
Present subjunctive
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | planifique |
| tú | planifiques |
| él/ella/Ud. | planifique |
| nosotros/as | planifiquemos |
| vosotros/as | planifiquéis |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | planifiquen |
Imperfect subjunctive (-ra)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | planificara |
| tú | planificaras |
| él/ella/Ud. | planificara |
| nosotros/as | planificáramos |
| vosotros/as | planificarais |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | planificaran |
Imperative (affirmative)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| tú | planifica |
| él/ella/Ud. | planifique |
| nosotros/as | planifiquemos |
| vosotros/as | planificad |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | planifiquen |
Imperative (negative)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| tú | planifiques |
| él/ella/Ud. | planifique |
| nosotros/as | planifiquemos |
| vosotros/as | planifiquéis |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | planifiquen |
Gerund and past participle
| Form | Spanish | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Gerund | planificando | with estar for the progressive: estoy planificando |
| Past participle | planificado | with haber for the perfect tenses: he planificado |
How to use each tense
Present indicative
Use the present for routines, general facts and what is happening right now. It is the tense you will use most often in everyday conversation, for habits with words like todos los días and for statements that are true in general. For planificar, the present indicative looks like this in a real sentence: Yo planifico las vacaciones — "I plan the holidays". Learn the present indicative forms in the table above alongside this example, and notice how the ending, not the stem, usually carries the meaning of the tense.
Preterite
Use the preterite for finished actions in the past — things that started and ended, often with time words like ayer, anoche or la semana pasada. The preterite moves a story forward, one completed event at a time. For planificar, the preterite looks like this in a real sentence: Yo planifiqué el proyecto — "I planed the project". Learn the preterite forms in the table above alongside this example, and notice how the ending, not the stem, usually carries the meaning of the tense. Spelling change in the preterite: the yo form is planifiqué (c → qu before e), so the sound of the stem stays the same.
Imperfect
Use the imperfect for background, habits and actions in progress in the past, often with words like antes, de niño or mientras. It describes how things used to be, not one finished event. For planificar, the imperfect looks like this in a real sentence: Yo planificaba un viaje — "I used to plan a trip". Learn the imperfect forms in the table above alongside this example, and notice how the ending, not the stem, usually carries the meaning of the tense.
Future
Use the future for plans, predictions and promises, often with mañana, el año que viene or pronto. It talks about what will happen, not what is happening now. For planificar, the future looks like this in a real sentence: Yo planificaré las vacaciones — "I will plan the holidays". Learn the future forms in the table above alongside this example, and notice how the ending, not the stem, usually carries the meaning of the tense.
Conditional
Use the conditional for polite requests, hypotheticals and what would happen, often in si clauses. It softens a request and describes imagined situations. For planificar, the conditional looks like this in a real sentence: Yo planificaría el proyecto — "I would plan the project". Learn the conditional forms in the table above alongside this example, and notice how the ending, not the stem, usually carries the meaning of the tense.
Present perfect
Use the present perfect for recent actions and experiences, often with hoy, esta semana or ya. It connects the past with the present moment. For planificar, the present perfect looks like this in a real sentence: Yo he planificado un viaje — "I have planed a trip". Learn the present perfect forms in the table above alongside this example, and notice how the ending, not the stem, usually carries the meaning of the tense.
Pluperfect
Use the pluperfect when one past action happened before another past action. It is the past of the past, and it usually appears with antes de or ya. For planificar, the pluperfect looks like this in a real sentence: Yo había planificado las vacaciones — "I had planed the holidays". Learn the pluperfect forms in the table above alongside this example, and notice how the ending, not the stem, usually carries the meaning of the tense.
Future perfect
Use the future perfect for something that will already be finished by a future time, often with para mañana or para el viernes. For planificar, the future perfect looks like this in a real sentence: Yo habré planificado el proyecto — "I will have planed the project". Learn the future perfect forms in the table above alongside this example, and notice how the ending, not the stem, usually carries the meaning of the tense.
Conditional perfect
Use the conditional perfect for what would have happened under different conditions. It looks back at a past that never happened. For planificar, the conditional perfect looks like this in a real sentence: Yo habría planificado un viaje — "I would have planed a trip". Learn the conditional perfect forms in the table above alongside this example, and notice how the ending, not the stem, usually carries the meaning of the tense.
Present subjunctive
Use the present subjunctive after expressions of wish, doubt, emotion and hope, such as espero que or quiero que. The subjunctive does not state a fact; it states an attitude towards the action. For planificar, the present subjunctive looks like this in a real sentence: Espero que él planifique las vacaciones — "I hope he plans the holidays". Learn the present subjunctive forms in the table above alongside this example, and notice how the ending, not the stem, usually carries the meaning of the tense. The subjunctive keeps the spelling change: planifique, planifiques, planifique all show c → qu before e, just like the preterite yo form.
Imperfect subjunctive (-ra)
Use the imperfect subjunctive after past wishes and in si clauses about the past, and note the -ra forms shown here; the -se forms use the same stem. For planificar, the imperfect subjunctive (-ra) looks like this in a real sentence: Si yo planificara el proyecto, todo cambiaría — "If I planed the project, everything would change". Learn the imperfect subjunctive (-ra) forms in the table above alongside this example, and notice how the ending, not the stem, usually carries the meaning of the tense.
Imperative (affirmative)
Use the affirmative imperative for direct commands, instructions and invitations. It tells someone to do something, and it has no yo form. For planificar, the imperative (affirmative) looks like this in a real sentence: Planifique un viaje — "Let him plan a trip". Learn the imperative (affirmative) forms in the table above alongside this example, and notice how the ending, not the stem, usually carries the meaning of the tense.
Imperative (negative)
Use the negative imperative, always with no, to tell someone not to do something. It uses the subjunctive forms, so it looks different from the affirmative commands. For planificar, the imperative (negative) looks like this in a real sentence: No planifiques las vacaciones — "Don't plan the holidays". Learn the imperative (negative) forms in the table above alongside this example, and notice how the ending, not the stem, usually carries the meaning of the tense.
Example sentences
Ten natural sentences with planificar, covering different tenses and persons. Each one uses a form from the tables above.
- Yo planifico el proyecto — "I plan the project"
- Él planifica un viaje — "He plans a trip"
- Yo planifiqué las vacaciones — "I planed the holidays"
- Yo planificaba el proyecto — "I used to plan the project"
- Tú planificarás un viaje — "You will plan a trip"
- Yo planificaría las vacaciones — "I would plan the holidays"
- Él ha planificado el proyecto — "He has planed the project"
- Espero que él planifique un viaje — "I hope he plans a trip"
- Yo había planificado las vacaciones — "I had planed the holidays"
- Ellos planificaban el proyecto — "They used to plan the project"
Common mistakes
- Wrong: Ellos planifica un viaje — Right: Ellos planifican un viaje — Ellos needs the ellos form planifican. The singular planifica belongs with él, ella or a singular noun.
- Wrong: Ayer, yo planifico — Right: Ayer, yo planifiqué — The present tense cannot describe a finished action yesterday. Ayer forces the preterite, so the form must change to planifiqué, with the spelling change c → qu before e.
- Wrong: De niño, yo planifiqué todos los días. — Right: Todos los días, yo planificaba — For a repeated habit in the past, use the imperfect (planificaba), not the preterite. The preterite (planifiqué) is for one finished action.
- Wrong: Yo soy planificado las vacaciones. — Right: Yo he planificado las vacaciones. — Spanish perfect tenses use haber, not ser: he planificado, has planificado, ha planificado. Ser plus the participle makes a passive, not a perfect tense.
- Wrong: Treating planificar and planear as identical in every context. — Right: Planificar means to plan, while planear means to plan. — They overlap, but each has uses the other does not: planificar fits sentences such as Yo planifico un viaje, while planear belongs in a different sentence. Check the meaning you want before choosing.
Quiz: test yourself
Ten questions on planificar. Choose the right form, then check the answer key below.
Complete the sentence: Yo ___ un viaje. (present tense) A. habíamos planificado B. habían planificado C. planifico D. planificara
Complete the sentence: Él ___ un viaje. (preterite) A. planificarais B. planificó C. habéis planificado D. planificáramos
Complete the sentence: Nosotros ___ un viaje. (imperfect) A. habré planificado B. planificábamos C. planifiquen D. habrá planificado
Complete the sentence: Tú ___ un viaje. (future) A. planifiquen B. planifiqué C. planificarás D. habíais planificado
Complete the sentence: Yo ___ un viaje. (conditional) A. planificarais B. planificarás C. planificaría D. planificasteis
Complete the sentence: Espero que él ___ un viaje. (present subjunctive) A. planifique B. habéis planificado C. planificaban D. planificaba
Complete the sentence: Si yo ___ un viaje, todo cambiaría. (imperfect subjunctive, -ra form) A. planificamos B. había planificado C. planificasteis D. planificara
Complete the sentence: Nosotros ___ un viaje. (present perfect) A. hemos planificado B. habíamos planificado C. planificarais D. habremos planificado
Complete the command: No ___ un viaje. (negative imperative, tú) A. planifiquéis B. planifique C. planifiques D. planifiquen
Which is the gerund of planificar, used with estar for the progressive? A. planificaba B. planificaré C. planificando D. planificado
Answer key
- planifico — The yo present tense of planificar is planifico.
- planificó — The él/ella/Ud. preterite of planificar is planificó.
- planificábamos — The nosotros/as imperfect of planificar is planificábamos.
- planificarás — The tú future of planificar is planificarás.
- planificaría — The yo conditional of planificar is planificaría.
- planifique — The él/ella/Ud. present subjunctive of planificar is planifique.
- planificara — The yo imperfect subjunctive, -ra form of planificar is planificara.
- hemos planificado — The nosotros/as present perfect of planificar is hemos planificado.
- planifiques — The negative tú imperative uses the present subjunctive form with no before it: planifiques.
- planificando — The gerund of planificar is planificando: estoy planificando. The participle planificado is used with haber instead.
Frequently asked questions
What does planificar mean in English?
Planificar means to plan. It is used in everyday situations such as Yo planifico un viaje. The exact English wording depends on the context, but the core meaning stays the same across the tenses.
Is planificar regular?
Mostly. Planificar follows the regular -ar endings, but it has a spelling change (c → qu before e). The tables on this page show every form, so you can see exactly where the spelling changes.
What is the difference between planificar and planear?
Planificar means to plan, while planear means to plan. They are easy to confuse because they appear in similar situations, but they are not interchangeable: use planificar when you mean to plan, as in Yo planifico un viaje, and use planear for to plan. When in doubt, check the object of the sentence — it usually shows which verb fits.
How do I say “I plan” in the past?
It depends on the kind of past. For one finished action, use the preterite: Yo planifiqué las vacaciones. For a repeated habit or background in the past, use the imperfect: Yo planificaba el proyecto. For something that has just happened, use the present perfect: Yo he planificado un viaje.
How do I practise planificar?
Start with the present tense table, then drill the preterite and the imperfect, since those two past tenses cause the most mistakes. Try the planificar examples and quiz page for more sentences, and use the Spanish Verb Quiz to test the forms under pressure.
Related links
- Planificar in the present tense — the full present-tense table for planificar.
- Planificar examples and quiz — more example sentences and practice for planificar.
- Spanish verbs — the Spanish hub, with every verb and tense guide.
- Plantar conjugation — another -ar verb to compare with planificar.
- Platicar conjugation — another -ar verb to compare with planificar.
- Quejarse conjugation — another -ar verb to compare with planificar.
- Spanish Verb Quiz — test yourself on real conjugated forms.
- Verb Conjugator — conjugate any Spanish verb in every tense.