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A wooden toy truck tipped over on its side with colorful blocks spilled out on the floor.

volcar

to tip over

Complete conjugation tables and interactive practice exercises. This is an irregular stem-changing -ar verb.

The Spanish verb volcar means to tip over.

Present tense:

yovuelco
vuelcas
él/ella/ustedvuelca
nosotrosvolcamos
vosotrosvolcáis
ellos/ellas/ustedesvuelcan

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🔄 Conjugations

subjunctive

imperfect

ellos/ellas/ustedesvolcaran
yovolcara
volcaras
vosotrosvolcarais
nosotrosvolcáramos
él/ella/ustedvolcara

Volcar is regular in the imperfect subjunctive, based on the third-person preterite 'volcaron'.

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present

ellos/ellas/ustedesvuelquen
yovuelque
vuelques
vosotrosvolquéis
nosotrosvolquemos
él/ella/ustedvuelque

Volcar combines the 'o > ue' stem change with the 'c > qu' spelling change in all forms.

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imperative

negative

no vuelques
vosotrosno volquéis
ustedesno vuelquen
nosotrosno volquemos
ustedno vuelque

Negative commands use the present subjunctive forms: no vuelques, no vuelque.

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affirmative

vuelca
vosotrosvolcad
ustedesvuelquen
nosotrosvolquemos
ustedvuelque

Use 'vuelca' (tú) or 'vuelquen' (ustedes) to tell someone to tip or dump something.

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indicative

conditional

ellos/ellas/ustedesvolcarían
yovolcaría
volcarías
vosotrosvolcaríais
nosotrosvolcaríamos
él/ella/ustedvolcaría

Volcar is regular in the conditional: volcaría, volcarías, volcaría...

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preterite

ellos/ellas/ustedesvolcaron
yovolqué
volcaste
vosotrosvolcasteis
nosotrosvolcamos
él/ella/ustedvolcó

Volcar has a spelling change in the 'yo' form (volqué) to keep the hard 'k' sound.

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imperfect

ellos/ellas/ustedesvolcaban
yovolcaba
volcabas
vosotrosvolcabais
nosotrosvolcábamos
él/ella/ustedvolcaba

Volcar is completely regular in the imperfect: volcaba, volcabas, volcaba...

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present

ellos/ellas/ustedesvuelcan
yovuelco
vuelcas
vosotrosvolcáis
nosotrosvolcamos
él/ella/ustedvuelca

Volcar is a stem-changing verb where the 'o' becomes 'ue' in all forms except nosotros and vosotros.

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future

ellos/ellas/ustedesvolcarán
yovolcaré
volcarás
vosotrosvolcaréis
nosotrosvolcaremos
él/ella/ustedvolcará

Volcar is regular in the future; just add endings to the infinitive: volcaré, volcarás...

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