promover means: to bring, to develop, to further, to pioneer, to promote, to provoke
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In this Spanish conjugation lesson we will learn how to conjugate the verb promover in the Presente tense of the Indicativo mood. It means we will see step by step how to create and translate forms of each grammatical person.

This lesson is specifically about the promover conjugation. For a general overview of Simple Tenses conjugation have a look at the Simple Tenses Conjugation Chart.

We also have a Video Presentation on how to conjugate verbs in Presente. It’s embedded below, but using the above link you can find more detailed information on conjugation in this tense and explanation of exceptions and special cases.

How to translate Presente to English

Notice that the phrases in English provided below next to each conjugation are not direct translations from Spanish to English. They are usually the closest general equivalents. The example differences are:

• In Spanish conjugation, there is the form usted in the third person singular. But this person does not translate to the English third person singular. It translates to the so called formal you and uses the inflected form which is most often represented as he/she/it in English conjugation charts.
• Similar situation happens in the third person plural, where ustedes translates to the English plural formal you but uses the form which corresponds to the they form in English.
• Tenses are used differently in Spanish and English, so the actual translation should always take into account the context and focus on translating the meaning, not just words.
• In both languages each verb may have multiple meanings and not every meaning translates directly to the other language. Here also, the context and focusing on the particular meaning helps to create the most accurate translation.

The Spanish Presente de Indicativo tense translates to one of the following:

• The English Present tense, for instance:
  tú promueves

  you bring
• The English Present Progressive (or Present Continuous) tense, for instance:
  ahora mismo ella promueve

  she is bringing right now
  
  Notice that the Spanish equivalent of the Present Progressive also exists and is in common use – that’s Presente Progresivo (a.k.a. Presente Continuo).

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Step by step instructions

Presente belongs to the simple tenses group, which means that all of the inflected forms are one word long. There are also compound (compuesto) tenses in Spanish language, where each conjugated verb form consists of two words. The verb promover has an irregular conjugation in the Presente tense of the Indicativo mood. The first person singular has an irregular stem in this tense.

This verb belongs to the group which gets a change of the last o in the stem into an ue.

It’s convenient to think about this change as happening only in Presente de Indicativo, persons 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd singular and 3^rd plural, and whatever it influences later on (like the Imperativo) it never gets beyond the above mentioned persons.

And why does this change influence the other tenses? Simply because their forms are created based on the 3^rd person singular of Presente de Indicativo. So just remembering that this verb is affected by this change and that the change doesn’t propagate to other persons – you are able to properly create forms of three other tenses!

So in the regular stem promov change o to ue to get promuev. But at least the ending is regular for this person. It is -o as normally in the -er verb group. Add it to the stem to get:

• yo promuevo – I bring

The second person singular also has an irregular stem in this tense.

So as explained before we need to change o to ue in the regular stem promov to get promuev. Similarly the ending is regular for this person. It is -es as normally in the -er verb group. Add it to the stem to get:

• tú promueves – you bring

The third person singular also has an irregular stem in this tense.

So as explained before we need to change o to ue in the regular stem promov to get promuev. And similarly the ending is regular for this person. It is -e as normally in the -er verb group. Add it to the stem to get:

• él promueve – he brings
• ella promueve – she brings
• usted promueve – (formal) you bring

The first person plural has a regular stem. So you need to use promov- at the beginning of this form. Add the regular ending -emos for this person to get promovemos:

• nosotros promovemos – we bring
• nosotras promovemos – (feminine) we bring

Similarly the second person plural has a regular stem. So simply use promov- as the basis for this person’s form. And add the regular ending -éis for this person to get promovéis:

• vosotros promovéis – (plural) you bring
• vosotras promovéis – (feminine, plural) you bring

The third person plural also has an irregular stem in this tense.

So as explained previously we need to change o to ue in the regular stem promov to get promuev. Also as in the previous case the ending is regular for this person. It is -en as normally in the -er verb group. Add it to the stem to get:

• ellos promueven – they bring
• ellas promueven – (feminine) they bring
• ustedes promueven – (formal, plural) you bring

Hurray! The conjugation is now finished. That’s the final result:

yo	promuevo	I bring
tú	promueves	you bring
él/ella/usted	promueve	he/she/it brings
nosotros/nosotras	promovemos	we bring
vosotros/vosotras	promovéis	you bring
ellos/ellas/ustedes	promueven	they bring

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But do not end your session yet – it is very important to repeat and practice the material in order to remember it. Check below for next steps.

Next Steps to Perfection To practice this conjugation and test your knowledge try this Conjugation Exercise or the Memory Game To see other conjugation lessons for this verb choose another tense: PretéritoImperfectoCondicionalFuturoPretérito Perfecto CompuestoPretérito PluscuamperfectoFuturo PerfectoCondicional PerfectoPretérito Perfecto Compuesto (subjuntivo)Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto A (subjuntivo)Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto B (subjuntivo)Futuro Perfecto (subjuntivo)  For exercises and examples related to promover visit our Exercise section To see conjugation charts in all tenses for promover visit the Conjugator To explore other learning materials visit the Study section

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