quebrar Imperfect Conjugation
quebrar — to break
The imperfect of quebrar is regular: quebraba, quebrabas, quebraba, quebrábamos, quebrabais, quebraban.
quebrar Imperfect Forms
When to Use the Imperfect
Use this for ongoing states (the company was failing) or repeated actions in the past (I used to break things).
Notes on quebrar in the Imperfect
Quebrar is a regular -ar verb in the imperfect. No stem changes occur.
Example Sentences
De niño, yo siempre quebraba mis juguetes.
As a child, I was always breaking my toys.
yo
La empresa quebraba poco a poco.
The company was going bankrupt little by little.
él/ella/usted
Nosotros quebrábamos las piedras en el río.
We used to break the stones in the river.
nosotros
Common Mistakes
Mistake: Forgetting the accent on 'quebrábamos'.
Correct: quebrábamos
Why: All 'nosotros' forms in the imperfect indicative require an accent on the antepenultimate syllable.
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Related Tenses
Present
yo: quiebro
Quebrar is a stem-changing verb in the present tense, changing e to ie in all forms except nosotros and vosotros.
Preterite
yo: quebré
Quebrar is completely regular in the preterite; it does not have a stem change here.
Future
yo: quebraré
The future tense of quebrar is regular: simply add the endings to the infinitive (quebrar-).
Conditional
yo: quebraría
The conditional of quebrar is regular: quebraría, quebrarías, quebraría, etc.
Present Subjunctive
yo: quiebre
The present subjunctive of quebrar follows the e > ie stem change in the same pattern as the present indicative.
Imperfect Subjunctive
yo: quebrara
The imperfect subjunctive of quebrar is regular, derived from the third-person plural preterite 'quebraron'.
Affirmative Imperative
yo: quiebra
The imperative of quebrar uses the stem-changed 'quiebra' for tú commands.
Negative Imperative
yo: no quiebres
The negative imperative of quebrar uses the present subjunctive forms preceded by 'no'.