sofrenar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sofɾeˈnaɾ/ [so.fɾeˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: so‧fre‧nar

Verb

sofrenar (first-person singular present sofreno, first-person singular preterite sofrené, past participle sofrenado)

1. (transitive) to rein in

Conjugation

    Conjugation of sofrenar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			sofrenar
gerund			sofrenando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		sofrenado		sofrenada
		plural		sofrenados		sofrenadas
		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	sofreno	sofrenastú sofrenásvos	sofrena	sofrenamos	sofrenáis	sofrenan
	imperfect	sofrenaba	sofrenabas	sofrenaba	sofrenábamos	sofrenabais	sofrenaban
	preterite	sofrené	sofrenaste	sofrenó	sofrenamos	sofrenasteis	sofrenaron
	future	sofrenaré	sofrenarás	sofrenará	sofrenaremos	sofrenaréis	sofrenarán
	conditional	sofrenaría	sofrenarías	sofrenaría	sofrenaríamos	sofrenaríais	sofrenarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	sofrene	sofrenestú sofrenésvos2	sofrene	sofrenemos	sofrenéis	sofrenen
	imperfect (ra)	sofrenara	sofrenaras	sofrenara	sofrenáramos	sofrenarais	sofrenaran
	imperfect (se)	sofrenase	sofrenases	sofrenase	sofrenásemos	sofrenaseis	sofrenasen
	future1	sofrenare	sofrenares	sofrenare	sofrenáremos	sofrenareis	sofrenaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		sofrenatú sofrenávos	sofrene	sofrenemos	sofrenad	sofrenen
	negative		no sofrenes	no sofrene	no sofrenemos	no sofrenéis	no sofrenen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

    Selected combined forms of sofrenar

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 sofrenar
	dative	sofrenarme	sofrenarte	sofrenarle, sofrenarse	sofrenarnos	sofrenaros	sofrenarles, sofrenarse
	accusative	sofrenarme	sofrenarte	sofrenarlo, sofrenarla, sofrenarse	sofrenarnos	sofrenaros	sofrenarlos, sofrenarlas, sofrenarse
with gerund sofrenando
	dative	sofrenándome	sofrenándote	sofrenándole, sofrenándose	sofrenándonos	sofrenándoos	sofrenándoles, sofrenándose
	accusative	sofrenándome	sofrenándote	sofrenándolo, sofrenándola, sofrenándose	sofrenándonos	sofrenándoos	sofrenándolos, sofrenándolas, sofrenándose
with informal second-person singular tú imperative sofrena
	dative	sofréname	sofrénate	sofrénale	sofrénanos	not used	sofrénales
	accusative	sofréname	sofrénate	sofrénalo, sofrénala	sofrénanos	not used	sofrénalos, sofrénalas
with informal second-person singular vos imperative sofrená
	dative	sofrename	sofrenate	sofrenale	sofrenanos	not used	sofrenales
	accusative	sofrename	sofrenate	sofrenalo, sofrenala	sofrenanos	not used	sofrenalos, sofrenalas
with formal second-person singular imperative sofrene
	dative	sofréneme	not used	sofrénele, sofrénese	sofrénenos	not used	sofréneles
	accusative	sofréneme	not used	sofrénelo, sofrénela, sofrénese	sofrénenos	not used	sofrénelos, sofrénelas
with first-person plural imperative sofrenemos
	dative	not used	sofrenémoste	sofrenémosle	sofrenémonos	sofrenémoos	sofrenémosles
	accusative	not used	sofrenémoste	sofrenémoslo, sofrenémosla	sofrenémonos	sofrenémoos	sofrenémoslos, sofrenémoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative sofrenad
	dative	sofrenadme	not used	sofrenadle	sofrenadnos	sofrenaos	sofrenadles
	accusative	sofrenadme	not used	sofrenadlo, sofrenadla	sofrenadnos	sofrenaos	sofrenadlos, sofrenadlas
with formal second-person plural imperative sofrenen
	dative	sofrénenme	not used	sofrénenle	sofrénennos	not used	sofrénenles, sofrénense
	accusative	sofrénenme	not used	sofrénenlo, sofrénenla	sofrénennos	not used	sofrénenlos, sofrénenlas, sofrénense

Further reading

• “sofrenar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014