medicinar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mediθiˈnaɾ/ [me.ð̞i.θiˈnaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /medisiˈnaɾ/ [me.ð̞i.siˈnaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: me‧di‧ci‧nar

Verb

medicinar (first-person singular present medicino, first-person singular preterite mediciné, past participle medicinado)

1. (transitive) to medicate

Conjugation

    Conjugation of medicinar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			medicinar
gerund			medicinando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		medicinado		medicinada
		plural		medicinados		medicinadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	medicino	medicinastú medicinásvos	medicina	medicinamos	medicináis	medicinan
	imperfect	medicinaba	medicinabas	medicinaba	medicinábamos	medicinabais	medicinaban
	preterite	mediciné	medicinaste	medicinó	medicinamos	medicinasteis	medicinaron
	future	medicinaré	medicinarás	medicinará	medicinaremos	medicinaréis	medicinarán
	conditional	medicinaría	medicinarías	medicinaría	medicinaríamos	medicinaríais	medicinarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	medicine	medicinestú medicinésvos2	medicine	medicinemos	medicinéis	medicinen
	imperfect (ra)	medicinara	medicinaras	medicinara	medicináramos	medicinarais	medicinaran
	imperfect (se)	medicinase	medicinases	medicinase	medicinásemos	medicinaseis	medicinasen
	future1	medicinare	medicinares	medicinare	medicináremos	medicinareis	medicinaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		medicinatú medicinávos	medicine	medicinemos	medicinad	medicinen
	negative		no medicines	no medicine	no medicinemos	no medicinéis	no medicinen

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

    Selected combined forms of medicinar

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
with infinitive medicinar	dative	medicinarme	medicinarte	medicinarle, medicinarse	medicinarnos	medicinaros	medicinarles, medicinarse
	accusative	medicinarme	medicinarte	medicinarlo, medicinarla, medicinarse	medicinarnos	medicinaros	medicinarlos, medicinarlas, medicinarse
with gerund medicinando	dative	medicinándome	medicinándote	medicinándole, medicinándose	medicinándonos	medicinándoos	medicinándoles, medicinándose
	accusative	medicinándome	medicinándote	medicinándolo, medicinándola, medicinándose	medicinándonos	medicinándoos	medicinándolos, medicinándolas, medicinándose
with informal second-person singular tuteo imperative medicina	dative	medicíname	medicínate	medicínale	medicínanos	not used	medicínales
	accusative	medicíname	medicínate	medicínalo, medicínala	medicínanos	not used	medicínalos, medicínalas
with informal second-person singular voseo imperative mediciná	dative	mediciname	medicinate	medicinale	medicinanos	not used	medicinales
	accusative	mediciname	medicinate	medicinalo, medicinala	medicinanos	not used	medicinalos, medicinalas
with formal second-person singular imperative medicine	dative	medicíneme	not used	medicínele, medicínese	medicínenos	not used	medicíneles
	accusative	medicíneme	not used	medicínelo, medicínela, medicínese	medicínenos	not used	medicínelos, medicínelas
with first-person plural imperative medicinemos	dative	not used	medicinémoste	medicinémosle	medicinémonos	medicinémoos	medicinémosles
	accusative	not used	medicinémoste	medicinémoslo, medicinémosla	medicinémonos	medicinémoos	medicinémoslos, medicinémoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative medicinad	dative	medicinadme	not used	medicinadle	medicinadnos	medicinaos	medicinadles
	accusative	medicinadme	not used	medicinadlo, medicinadla	medicinadnos	medicinaos	medicinadlos, medicinadlas
with formal second-person plural imperative medicinen	dative	medicínenme	not used	medicínenle	medicínennos	not used	medicínenles, medicínense
	accusative	medicínenme	not used	medicínenlo, medicínenla	medicínennos	not used	medicínenlos, medicínenlas, medicínense

Related terms

• medicina

Further reading

• “medicinar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025