promover means: to bring, to develop, to further, to pioneer, to promote, to provoke
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In this conjugation lesson we are going to learn how to conjugate the verb promover in the Imperfecto 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 all the Simple Tenses conjugation see the Simple Tenses Conjugation Chart.

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

How to translate Imperfecto to English

Note that the English phrases 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.

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Step by step instructions

Imperfecto 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 the Spanish language, where each conjugated form consists of two words.The verb promover has regular conjugation in the Imperfecto tense of the Indicativo mood. It means that this verb simply follows the general rules for its group (-er) without any exceptions or spelling corrections. This tense is really easy, because only three exceptions exist! The basis for the conjugation in this tense is the stem of the verb, so we begin by splitting the infinitive into a stem and an ending. It’s easy to do. Simply remove two letters from the end of the infinitive form to get the ending — one of -ar, -er or -ir. What’s left is the stem. So in case of our verb:

• the stem is: promov-
• and the ending is: -er

Use the stem promov- in each person as the basis for the conjugations, the common prefix that each of the forms begins with. Next, add to this regular stem the endings specific to each person. See the image on the side showing all the six endings. Notice both the shapes and colors of the letters. It should help you find patterns and make it easier to remember these endings.

Also note that in verb groups -er and -ir all the endings in both Pretéterito Imperfecto and Condicional tenses are identical. Good tip to remember! The only difference is that the Condicional uses the entire infinitive as the stem.Each grammatical person has a specific ending in each of the three conjugation groups -ar, -er, -ir. Add the regular ending -ía for the first person singular to create promovía:

• yo promovía – I brought

Like previously add the regular ending -ías for the second person singular to create promovías:

• tú promovías – you brought

And again add the regular ending -ía for the third person singular to create promovía:

• él promovía – he brought
• ella promovía – she brought
• usted promovía – (formal) you brought

And add the regular ending -íamos for the first person plural to create promovíamos:

• nosotros promovíamos – we brought
• nosotras promovíamos – (feminine) we brought

Again add the regular ending -íais for the second person plural to create promovíais:

• vosotros promovíais – (plural) you brought
• vosotras promovíais – (feminine, plural) you brought

Once more add the regular ending -ían for the third person plural to create promovían:

• ellos promovían – they brought
• ellas promovían – (feminine) they brought
• ustedes promovían – (formal, plural) you brought

That’s it! The conjugation is now complete. The final result looks as follows:

yo	promovía	I brought
tú	promovías	you brought
él/ella/usted	promovía	he/she/it brought
nosotros/nosotras	promovíamos	we brought
vosotros/vosotras	promovíais	you brought
ellos/ellas/ustedes	promovían	they brought

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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: PresentePretéritoCondicionalFuturoPretérito 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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