Visitar Conjugation in Spanish
visitar means "to visit" in English, and it is one of the Spanish verbs you will use again and again in everyday conversation. It is used for talking about visits — to family, to friends, to cities, museums and places, which makes it a practical verb to learn early and to use confidently. This page gives you the complete conjugation of visitar in every tense and mood — present, preterite, imperfect, future, conditional, the four perfect tenses, both subjunctive tenses and the imperative — with all six persons, plus the gerund and the past participle. Every form below comes from VerbFlow's verified conjugation tables, so you can trust the accents and the irregular forms. Visitar is a regular -ar verb verb, and the notes under each tense explain exactly where it follows the rules and where it breaks them. To hear it in a real sentence: Yo visito a mi abuela todos los domingos. — "I visit my grandmother every Sunday.". Work through the tables, read the notes, then test yourself with the quiz at the end of the page.
Quick facts
- Infinitive: visitar
- English: to visit
- Verb type: Regular -ar verb
- Gerund: visitando
- Past participle: visitado
- Auxiliary verb: haber (all compound tenses use haber + visitado)
Full conjugation table
Every tense of visitar with all six persons. The gerund is visitando and the past participle is visitado.
Present indicative
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | visito |
| tú | visitas |
| él/ella/Ud. | visita |
| nosotros/as | visitamos |
| vosotros/as | visitáis |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | visitan |
Preterite (past)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | visité |
| tú | visitaste |
| él/ella/Ud. | visitó |
| nosotros/as | visitamos |
| vosotros/as | visitasteis |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | visitaron |
Imperfect (past)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | visitaba |
| tú | visitabas |
| él/ella/Ud. | visitaba |
| nosotros/as | visitábamos |
| vosotros/as | visitabais |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | visitaban |
Future
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | visitaré |
| tú | visitarás |
| él/ella/Ud. | visitará |
| nosotros/as | visitaremos |
| vosotros/as | visitaréis |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | visitarán |
Conditional
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | visitaría |
| tú | visitarías |
| él/ella/Ud. | visitaría |
| nosotros/as | visitaríamos |
| vosotros/as | visitaríais |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | visitarían |
Present perfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | he visitado |
| tú | has visitado |
| él/ella/Ud. | ha visitado |
| nosotros/as | hemos visitado |
| vosotros/as | habéis visitado |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | han visitado |
Pluperfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | había visitado |
| tú | habías visitado |
| él/ella/Ud. | había visitado |
| nosotros/as | habíamos visitado |
| vosotros/as | habíais visitado |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | habían visitado |
Future perfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | habré visitado |
| tú | habrás visitado |
| él/ella/Ud. | habrá visitado |
| nosotros/as | habremos visitado |
| vosotros/as | habréis visitado |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | habrán visitado |
Conditional perfect
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | habría visitado |
| tú | habrías visitado |
| él/ella/Ud. | habría visitado |
| nosotros/as | habríamos visitado |
| vosotros/as | habríais visitado |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | habrían visitado |
Present subjunctive
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | visite |
| tú | visites |
| él/ella/Ud. | visite |
| nosotros/as | visitemos |
| vosotros/as | visitéis |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | visiten |
Imperfect subjunctive (-ra)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| yo | visitara |
| tú | visitaras |
| él/ella/Ud. | visitara |
| nosotros/as | visitáramos |
| vosotros/as | visitarais |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | visitaran |
Imperative (affirmative)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| tú | visita |
| él/ella/Ud. | visite |
| nosotros/as | visitemos |
| vosotros/as | visitad |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | visiten |
Imperative (negative)
| Person | Form |
|---|---|
| tú | visites |
| él/ella/Ud. | visite |
| nosotros/as | visitemos |
| vosotros/as | visitéis |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | visiten |
Gerund and past participle
| Form | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Gerund | visitando |
| Past participle | visitado |
How to use each tense
Each tense below explains when to use it with visitar, with one example sentence. The example forms are taken from the tables above.
Present indicative
The present tense talks about what happens now, habits, routines and general truths. It is the first tense every learner needs, because it covers daily life: what you do, what you like, where you live. For most verbs the present is also the base for the present subjunctive, so learning it well pays off twice.
This tense is regular for this verb — the endings follow the standard pattern for its verb class.
Example: Yo visito a mi abuela.
Preterite (past)
The preterite talks about finished actions in the past — things that started and ended at a specific moment. Use it for events, for what happened yesterday, last year, or at a particular time. It answers the question "what happened?" and it is the tense of stories told as a sequence of events.
This tense is regular for this verb — the endings follow the standard pattern for its verb class.
Example: Ayer yo visité a mi abuela.
Imperfect (past)
The imperfect talks about the past as background: habits, repeated actions, descriptions, and things that were in progress when something else happened. Use it for "used to", for setting a scene, and for age, time and weather in the past. It answers "what was going on?" rather than "what happened?".
This tense is regular for this verb — the endings follow the standard pattern for its verb class.
Example: En aquella época, yo visitaba a mi abuela.
Future
The future tense talks about what will happen: plans, predictions and promises. In everyday speech Spanish speakers often use "ir a + infinitive" instead, but the future tense is essential for formal writing, for promises, and for guessing about the present ("¿Dónde estará?").
This tense is regular for this verb — the endings follow the standard pattern for its verb class.
Example: Mañana yo visitaré a mi abuela.
Conditional
The conditional talks about what would happen: hypothetical situations, polite requests, and advice. It pairs with the imperfect subjunctive in "if" sentences ("Si pudiera, lo haría"). It is also the polite way to ask for things and to soften opinions.
This tense is regular for this verb — the endings follow the standard pattern for its verb class.
Example: Yo visitaría a mi abuela si pudiera.
Present perfect
The present perfect (haber + past participle) talks about the recent past and about experience: what you have done, what has just happened, what you have never tried. It connects the past to the present moment, so it often appears with "hoy", "esta semana", "ya" and "todavía no".
This tense is regular for this verb — the endings follow the standard pattern for its verb class.
Example: Yo ya he visitado a mi abuela.
Pluperfect
The pluperfect (había + past participle) talks about the past before the past: what had already happened when something else happened. Use it to order two past events — the pluperfect one comes first in time. It appears constantly in stories and explanations.
This tense is regular for this verb — the endings follow the standard pattern for its verb class.
Example: Yo ya había visitado a mi abuela antes.
Future perfect
The future perfect (habré + past participle) talks about something that will already be finished by a future moment: "Para mañana ya habré terminado". It is also used to guess about the past: "¿Dónde habrá ido?". It is less common in speech but regular in writing.
This tense is regular for this verb — the endings follow the standard pattern for its verb class.
Example: Para mañana yo ya habré visitado a mi abuela.
Conditional perfect
The conditional perfect (habría + past participle) talks about what would have happened: the past of the conditional. It appears in "if" sentences about a past that did not happen ("Si hubiera sabido, habría venido") and in polite regrets and reproaches.
This tense is regular for this verb — the endings follow the standard pattern for its verb class.
Example: Yo habría visitado a mi abuela si hubiera podido.
Present subjunctive
The present subjunctive is the mood of wishes, doubts, emotions and influence: what you want, hope, doubt or demand. It appears after "quiero que", "espero que", "es posible que", "ojalá" and after verbs of emotion and doubt. It never stands alone — a trigger in the main clause calls for it.
This tense is regular for this verb — the endings follow the standard pattern for its verb class.
Example: Espero que él visite a mi abuela.
Imperfect subjunctive (-ra)
The imperfect subjunctive is the past of the subjunctive: it follows past-tense triggers ("Quería que vinieras") and it is the tense of "if" clauses about unlikely or impossible situations ("Si tuviera dinero, viajaría"). The -ra forms shown here are the standard ones; -se forms exist too but -ra is far more common in speech.
This tense is regular for this verb — the endings follow the standard pattern for its verb class.
Example: Si él visitara a mi abuela, sería perfecto.
Imperative (affirmative)
Affirmative commands tell someone to do something: "¡Ven aquí!", "¡Siéntate!". The tú and vosotros forms are the ones you will use most, and they are also the ones that break the regular pattern most often — the tú affirmative command comes from the él/ella present form, not from the infinitive.
This tense is regular for this verb — the endings follow the standard pattern for its verb class.
Example: ¡Visita a mi abuela!
Imperative (negative)
Negative commands tell someone not to do something: "¡No hables!", "¡No te vayas!". Unlike affirmative commands, negative commands always use the subjunctive forms, for every person. If you know the present subjunctive, you already know the negative imperative.
This tense is regular for this verb — the endings follow the standard pattern for its verb class.
Example: No visites a mi abuela.
Example sentences
Ten natural sentences with visitar, covering different tenses and persons. Read the Spanish first, then check the English.
- Yo visito a mi abuela todos los domingos. — "I visit my grandmother every Sunday."
- ¿Tú visitas a mi abuela este fin de semana? — "Will you visit my grandmother this weekend?"
- Ayer visité a mi abuela en el hospital. — "Yesterday I visited my grandmother in the hospital."
- Nosotros visitábamos a mi abuela cada verano. — "We used to visit my grandmother every summer."
- Mañana visitaré a mi abuela por la tarde. — "Tomorrow I will visit my grandmother in the afternoon."
- Yo visitaría a mi abuela más a menudo si viviera cerca. — "I would visit my grandmother more often if I lived nearby."
- Ya he visitado a mi abuela dos veces esta semana. — "I have already visited my grandmother twice this week."
- ¡visita a mi abuela, le hará ilusión! — "Visit my grandmother, it will make her happy!"
Common mistakes
The errors learners actually make with visitar — and how to fix them.
- Wrong: *Yo visité a mi abuela — learners often write visite without the accent. → Right: Yo visité a mi abuela.. The preterite yo form is visité, with an accent on the final e. Visitar is regular, so the accent is the main spelling point.
- Wrong: *Visito mi abuela — the personal a is often forgotten. → Right: Yo visito a mi abuela.. Before a specific person as direct object, Spanish needs the personal a: visito a mi abuela, not visito mi abuela.
- Wrong: *Espero que tú visitas a mi abuela. → Right: Espero que tú visites a mi abuela.. After espero que, use the subjunctive visites, not the indicative visitas.
- Wrong: *Yo he visitado a mi abuela — some learners write he visito with the present instead of the participle. → Right: Yo he visitado a mi abuela.. The perfect tenses use the participle visitado after haber: he visitado, not he visito.
Quiz: test yourself
Ten questions on visitar. Answers are at the end, with a short explanation for each.
What is the yo form of visitar in the present indicative?
- a) visita
- b) visitamos
- c) visito
- d) visitas
What is the él/ella/Ud. form of visitar in the preterite (past)?
- a) visitamos
- b) visité
- c) visitaste
- d) visitó
What is the nosotros/as form of visitar in the imperfect (past)?
- a) visitaba
- b) visitábamos
- c) visitaba
- d) visitabas
What is the tú form of visitar in the future?
- a) visitarás
- b) visitaremos
- c) visitaré
- d) visitará
What is the ellos/ellas/Uds. form of visitar in the conditional?
- a) visitarías
- b) visitarían
- c) visitaría
- d) visitaría
What is the yo form of visitar in the present subjunctive?
- a) visites
- b) visitemos
- c) visite
- d) visite
What is the gerund of visitar?
- a) visitar
- b) visitado
- c) visita
- d) visitando
What is the past participle of visitar?
- a) visito
- b) visitando
- c) visitado
- d) he visitado
What does visitar mean in English?
- a) to lie
- b) to laugh
- c) to get tired
- d) to visit
The form visité belongs to which tense?
- a) Present
- b) Future
- c) Preterite
- d) Imperfect
Answer key
- visito — The yo form in the present indicative is visito — the other options are the same tense but different persons.
- visitó — The él/ella/Ud. form in the preterite (past) is visitó — the other options are the same tense but different persons.
- visitábamos — The nosotros/as form in the imperfect (past) is visitábamos — the other options are the same tense but different persons.
- visitarás — The tú form in the future is visitarás — the other options are the same tense but different persons.
- visitarían — The ellos/ellas/Uds. form in the conditional is visitarían — the other options are the same tense but different persons.
- visite — The yo form in the present subjunctive is visite — the other options are the same tense but different persons.
- visitando — The gerund is visitando — it is the form used with estar for the progressive (estoy visitando). The past participle is visitado.
- visitado — The past participle is visitado — it is the form used after haber in the perfect tenses (he visitado).
- to visit — visitar means "to visit".
- Preterite — visité is the yo form of the preterite of visitar — a finished past action. The imperfect yo form is visitaba.
Frequently asked questions
Is visitar regular?
Yes, visitar is a regular -ar verb: visito, visitas, visita, visitamos, visitáis, visitan. The preterite is visité, visitaste, visitó, and the participle is visitado. There are no surprises.
What is the difference between visitar and ir a ver?
Visitar is the standard verb for visiting people and places, while ir a ver (to go to see) is more informal and often implies a shorter or more casual visit. For a city or a museum, visitar is the natural choice: Visité Madrid.
Do you say visitar a alguien or visitar alguien?
Visitar a alguien — the personal a is required before a person: visito a mi abuela, visito a mis amigos. For places there is no a: visito Madrid, visito el museo.
How do you say "I visited" in Spanish?
Visité — the preterite yo form. For example: Ayer visité a mi abuela. If the visit is recent and connected to now, use the present perfect: He visitado a mi abuela esta semana.
Related pages
- Visitar in the present tense — the present tense of visitar in depth, with its own examples and quiz.
- Visitar examples and quiz — more everyday sentences with visitar and a second quiz.
- Spanish verbs — the Spanish hub: every verb, every tense guide and every tool in one place.
- Invitar conjugation — another verb in the same family as visitar.
- Viajar conjugation — another verb in the same family as visitar.
- Spanish Verb Conjugator — practise visitar with this tool.
- Preterite vs Imperfect — practise visitar with this tool.
- Present tense guide — how the present tense works for regular and irregular verbs.