Presentepresent
| yo | |
|---|---|
| tú | |
| él/ella/usted | llueve |
| nosotros/-as | |
| vosotros/-as | |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes |
More on this: Present tense: regular verbs
Conjugation of llover
- Meaning to rain
- Level A1
- Pattern with a stem change: o → ue · conjugated like volver
What is special about this verb
- Stem change o → ue where the stem is stressed: llueve. → Stem-changing verbs
- Used almost only in the third person: llueve.
Bold and underlined: the ending. ◆ marks a form that breaks the rule.
Indicative
Pretérito indefinidocompleted past
| yo | |
|---|---|
| tú | |
| él/ella/usted | llovió |
| nosotros/-as | |
| vosotros/-as | |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes |
More on this: Preterite (indefinido)
Pretérito imperfectoongoing or habitual past
| yo | |
|---|---|
| tú | |
| él/ella/usted | llovía |
| nosotros/-as | |
| vosotros/-as | |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes |
More on this: Imperfect (imperfecto)
Futuro simplefuture
| yo | |
|---|---|
| tú | |
| él/ella/usted | lloverá |
| nosotros/-as | |
| vosotros/-as | |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes |
More on this: Simple future (futuro)
Condicional simpleconditional
| yo | |
|---|---|
| tú | |
| él/ella/usted | llovería |
| nosotros/-as | |
| vosotros/-as | |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes |
More on this: Conditional (condicional)
Pretérito perfectoperfect
| yo | |
|---|---|
| tú | |
| él/ella/usted | ha llovido |
| nosotros/-as | |
| vosotros/-as | |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes |
More on this: Present perfect (perfecto)
Pretérito pluscuamperfectopast perfect
| yo | |
|---|---|
| tú | |
| él/ella/usted | había llovido |
| nosotros/-as | |
| vosotros/-as | |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes |
More on this: Past perfect (pluscuamperfecto)
Futuro perfectofuture perfect
| yo | |
|---|---|
| tú | |
| él/ella/usted | habrá llovido |
| nosotros/-as | |
| vosotros/-as | |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes |
More on this: Future perfect: habré hecho
Condicional compuestoconditional perfect
| yo | |
|---|---|
| tú | |
| él/ella/usted | habría llovido |
| nosotros/-as | |
| vosotros/-as | |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes |
More on this: Third conditional: si hubiera
Subjunctive
Presente de subjuntivopresent subjunctive
| yo | |
|---|---|
| tú | |
| él/ella/usted | llueva |
| nosotros/-as | |
| vosotros/-as | |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes |
More on this: Present subjunctive: the forms
Imperfecto de subjuntivo (-ra)past subjunctive
| yo | |
|---|---|
| tú | |
| él/ella/usted | lloviera |
| nosotros/-as | |
| vosotros/-as | |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes |
More on this: The imperfect subjunctive
Imperfecto de subjuntivo (-se)past subjunctive
| yo | |
|---|---|
| tú | |
| él/ella/usted | lloviese |
| nosotros/-as | |
| vosotros/-as | |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes |
More on this: The imperfect subjunctive
Pretérito perfecto de subjuntivoperfect subjunctive
| yo | |
|---|---|
| tú | |
| él/ella/usted | haya llovido |
| nosotros/-as | |
| vosotros/-as | |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes |
More on this: The perfect subjunctive: haya hecho
Pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivopluperfect subjunctive
| yo | |
|---|---|
| tú | |
| él/ella/usted | hubiera llovido |
| nosotros/-as | |
| vosotros/-as | |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes |
More on this: Third conditional: si hubiera
Non-finite forms
Formas no personalesinfinitive, gerund, participle
| infinitivo | llover |
|---|---|
| gerundio | lloviendo |
| participio | llovido |
More on this: Present progressive: estar + -ando · Past participle: hecho, dicho
Example sentences from the course
Every sentence comes from this course’s word lists or grammar topics. The verb form is highlighted, and the line below says which tense and person it is.
Quizá llueva mañana.Perhaps it will rain tomorrow.
llueva — Presente de subjuntivo · él/ella/usted
Aunque llueve, salimos.Although it is raining, we are going out.
llueve — Presente · él/ella/usted
Está lloviendo otra vez.It is raining again.
lloviendo — gerundio
El mes pasado llovió mucho.It rained a lot last month.
llovió — Pretérito indefinido · él/ella/usted
De repente se puso a llover.Suddenly it started to rain.
llover — infinitivo
La jornada anterior había llovido.It had rained the day before.
llovido — participio
A common trap
Wrong En caso de que llueve, nos quedamos en casa.
Right En caso de que llueva, nos quedamos en casa.
English puts the indicative after «in case» and «unless», and Spanish si does the same, so the indicative is carried over to every conditional word: En caso de que llueve. But si is the exception, not the rule — every other conditional word takes the subjunctive: En caso de que llueva.
Quick practice
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The forms are calculated from the rules of the language — twice, in two independent ways — and checked against every hand-written form in this course. The example sentences are the course’s own.