revisar Preterite Conjugation
revisar — check
Revisar is regular in the preterite: revisé, revisaste, revisó, revisamos, revisasteis, revisaron.
revisar Preterite Forms
When to Use the Preterite
Use the preterite for completed actions of checking. It implies the review was finished at a specific point in time, such as 'I checked the homework' or 'They reviewed the contract yesterday.'
Notes on revisar in the Preterite
Revisar is regular. Note that 'revisamos' is the same in both the present and the preterite; look for time markers like 'ayer' to tell them apart.
Example Sentences
Ya revisé todos los documentos.
I already checked all the documents.
yo
¿Revisaste si la puerta está cerrada?
Did you check if the door is locked?
tú
El médico revisó al paciente anoche.
The doctor checked the patient last night.
él/ella/usted
Common Mistakes
Mistake: reviso
Correct: revisó
Why: Without the accent, 'reviso' means 'I check' (present). 'Revisó' means 'he/she checked' (past).
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Related Tenses
Present
yo: reviso
Revisar is a standard -ar verb in the present: reviso, revisas, revisa, revisamos, revisáis, revisan.
Imperfect
yo: revisaba
Revisar is fully regular in the imperfect: revisaba, revisabas, revisaba, revisábamos, revisabais, revisaban.
Future
yo: revisaré
To form the future of revisar, add endings to the infinitive: revisaré, revisarás, revisará, revisaremos, revisaréis, revisarán.
Conditional
yo: revisaría
The conditional of revisar uses the infinitive plus -ía endings: revisaría, revisarías, revisaría, revisaríamos, revisaríais, revisarían.
Present Subjunctive
yo: revise
For revisar, swap the 'a' for 'e': revise, revises, revise, revisemos, reviséis, revisen.
Imperfect Subjunctive
yo: revisara
The imperfect subjunctive of revisar is formed from the 'ellos' preterite: revisara, revisaras, revisara, revisáramos, revisarais, revisaran.
Affirmative Imperative
yo: revisa
The affirmative commands for revisar are: revisa (tú), revise (usted), revisemos (nosotros), revisad (vosotros), revisen (ustedes).
Negative Imperative
yo: no revises
The negative imperative uses the present subjunctive: no revises, no revise, no revisemos, no reviséis, no revisen.