Spanish Verb CALENTAR - to heat up. Irregular AR family

Spanish Verb CALENTAR: to heat up

The Spanish verb calentar means 'to heat up ' and is an irregular Spanish AR verb.

To remember this, imagine heating up a CALENDAR!

Calentar changes the stem in the Present, Present Subjunctive and Imperative tenses.
During December a new irregular -AR verb is featured each day to enable you to consolidate an irregular AR verb family. You will learn other verbs with similar patterns such as alentar, apretar, cerrar, desterrar, and others.

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Read on, below the CALENTAR verb table...

to heat up: calentar
Imagine heating up a CALENDAR!

VERB CONJUGATION TABLE calentar
Simple Tenses calentar
TENSE	yo	tú	él, ella, usted	nosotros	vosotros	ellos, ellas, ustedes
Present Presente heat up	caliento	calientas	calienta	calentamos	calentáis	calientan
Imperfect Imperfecto heated up	calentaba	calentabas	calentaba	calentábamos	calentabais	calentaban
Preterit Pretérito heated up	calenté	calentaste	calentó	calentamos	calentasteis	calentaron
Future Futuro will heat up	calentaré	calentarás	calentará	calentaremos	calentaréis	calentarán
Conditional Condicional would heat up	calentaría	calentarías	calentaría	calentaríamos	calentaríais	calentarían
Subjunctive Subjuntivo may heat up	caliente	calientes	caliente	calentemos	calentéis	calienten
Imperfect Subjunctive Imperfecto de Subjuntivo may heat up	calentara	calentaras	calentara	calentáramos	calentarais	calentaran
	calentase	calentases	calentase	calentásemos	calentaseis	calentasen
Imperative Tenses calentar
Imperative Imperativo heat up!		¡calienta!	¡caliente!	¡calentemos!	¡calentad!	¡calienten!
Negative Imperative Imperativo Negativo don't heat up!		¡no calientes!	¡no caliente!	¡no calentemos!	¡no calentéis!	¡no calienten!
Compound Tenses calentar - Past Participle calentado - heated up
Present Perfect Perfecto de Indicativo have heated up	he calentado	has calentado	ha calentado	hemos calentado	habéis calentado	han calentado
Preterit Perfect Pretérito Anterior had heated up	hube calentado	hubiste calentado	hubo calentado	hubimos calentado	hubisteis calentado	hubieron calentado
Past Perfect Pluscuamperfecto had heated up	había calentado	habías calentado	había calentado	habíamos calentado	habíais calentado	habían calentado
Present Perfect Subjunctive Presente perfecto have heated up	haya calentado	hayas calentado	haya calentado	hayamos calentado	hayáis calentado	hayan calentado
Future Perfect Futuro Perfecto will have heated up	habré calentado	habrás calentado	habrá calentado	habremos calentado	habréis calentado	habrán calentado
Conditional Perfect Condicional Perfecto would have heated up	habría calentado	habrías calentado	habría calentado	habríamos calentado	habríais calentado	habrían calentado
Pluperfect Pluscuamperfecto may have heated up	hubiera calentado	hubieras calentado	hubiera calentado	hubiéramos calentado	hubierais calentado	hubieran calentado
Pluperfect Pluscuamperfecto may have heated up	hubiese calentado	hubieses calentado	hubiese calentado	hubiésemos calentado	hubieseis calentado	hubiesen calentado
Progressive Tenses: Present Participle calentando - heating up
Present Progressive Presente Progressivo am heating up	estoy calentando	estás calentando	está calentando	estamos calentando	está calentando	están calentando
Preterit Progressive Pretérito was heating up	estuve calentando	estuviste calentando	estuvo calentando	estuvimos calentando	estuvisteis calentando	estuvieron calentando
Imperfect Progressive Imperfecto had been heating up	estaba calentando	estabas calentando	estaba calentando	estábamos calentando	estabais calentando	estaban calentando
Future Progressive Futuro Perfecto will be heating up	estaré calentando	estarás calentando	estará calentando	estaremos calentando	estaréis calentando	estarán calentando
Conditional Progressive Condicional perfecto would've been heating up	estaría calentando	estarías calentando	estabría calentando	estaríamos calentando	estaríais calentando	estarían calentando
Subjunctive Progressive Subjuntivo may've been heating up	que ~ calentando	que ~ calentando	que ~ calentando	que ~ calentando	que ~ calentando	que ~ calentando

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MORE on the SPANISH VERB calentar

calentar can also mean: to heat up; to arouse, to turn on (fam); to torture, to beat someone up.
calentarse (vr): to get angry/mad, to seethe (fam).
calentar a hacer algo: to begin to do something.
calentar motores: to gather momentum (lit.heat up the engines).

calentar la cabeza: to wind someone up, to pester, to egg on.
calentar bien a alguien: to give someone a good hiding.
calentar los músculos to warm up the muscles (sport).

el calentamiento (nm): warming(up), increase in temperature; warm-up exercise.
el calentamiento global (nm): global warming.

vos replaces tú - you, informal, singular -
- in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and also in some countries of Central America.
Sometimes it also replaces the formal singular 'Usted'.
In irregular AR verbs, the conjugations remain the same as for tú except for the addition of accents in the following tenses:
Presente: vos calentás
Imperativo: ¡calentá!

HOW TO CONQUER SPANISH VERB CONJUGATION

The Spanish verb for heat up calentar is an Irregular AR verb.
Learn to conjugate calentar and it will reinforce this irregular pattern.
Do a series of verbs every day for a month and you will have a solid knowledge of the verbs' conjugation patterns. Keep doing them with a new one every day from the Spanish Verbs List.
The same applies to the various patterns. Each month we feature a daily verb from one of the major pattern groups.
Repeating these tables aloud 10 times throughout the day will better embed the patterns into your subconscious, and your long term memory.
Reciting aloud is a great way for you to practice your pronunciation, and helps you to memorize the conjugations.

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