medicar Imperfect Subjunctive Conjugation
medicar — to prescribe medicine
The imperfect subjunctive of medicar is regular based on the preterite: medicara, medicaras, medicara, medicáramos, medicarais, medicaran.
medicar Imperfect Subjunctive Forms
When to Use the Imperfect Subjunctive
Use this for hypothetical situations in the past or to express polite requests regarding medication, such as 'Si me medicara, me sentiría mejor'.
Notes on medicar in the Imperfect Subjunctive
Medicar is regular in this tense. It follows the standard -ra endings attached to the third-person plural preterite stem (medicar-).
Example Sentences
Si el médico me medicara, ya estaría sano.
If the doctor medicated me, I would already be healthy.
él/ella/usted
Le pedí que no medicara al niño todavía.
I asked him not to medicate the child yet.
él/ella/usted
Ojalá nos medicáramos con más cuidado.
I wish we medicated ourselves more carefully.
nosotros
Common Mistakes
Mistake: Forgetting the accent on the nosotros form: 'medicaramos'.
Correct: medicáramos
Why: In the imperfect subjunctive, the 'nosotros' form always carries an accent on the vowel preceding the ending.
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Related Tenses
Present
yo: medico
Medicar is completely regular in the present indicative: medico, medicas, medica, medicamos, medicáis, medican.
Preterite
yo: mediqué
Medicar is regular except for the 'yo' form, which changes to 'mediqué' to preserve the sound.
Imperfect
yo: medicaba
The imperfect of medicar is regular: medicaba, medicabas, medicaba, medicábamos, medicabais, medicaban.
Future
yo: medicaré
The future of medicar is regular: medicaré, medicarás, medicará, medicaremos, medicaréis, medicarán.
Conditional
yo: medicaría
The conditional of medicar is regular: medicaría, medicarías, medicaría, medicaríamos, medicaríais, medicarían.
Present Subjunctive
yo: medique
Medicar undergoes a c to qu spelling change in all persons: medique, mediques, medique, mediquemos, mediquéis, mediquen.
Affirmative Imperative
yo: medica
The imperative uses regular -ar endings, but the 'usted' and 'ustedes' forms use the 'qu' spelling change.
Negative Imperative
yo: no mediques
The negative imperative always uses the 'qu' spelling change: no mediques, no medique, no mediquemos, no mediquéis, no mediquen.