vomitar means: to vomit, to barf, to be sick, to bring up, to chuck up, to disgorge, to honk, to spew, to throw up
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In this Spanish conjugation lesson we will see how to inflect the verb vomitar 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 vomitar verb conjugation. For an overview of Simple Tenses conjugation see the Simple Tenses Conjugation Chart.

You may also see the Video Presentation on how to conjugate verbs in Imperfecto. It’s embedded below, but using the above link you will get additional 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 conjugated forms are one word long. There are also compound (compuesto) tenses in Spanish language, where each conjugated form consists of two words.The verb vomitar has an entirely regular conjugation in the Imperfecto tense of the Indicativo mood. It means this verb just follows the basic rules for its conjugation group (-ar) without any exceptions or spelling corrections. This tense is really easy, because there are only three exceptions! The basis for this conjugation is the stem of the verb, so we have to begin by splitting the infinitive into a stem and an ending. It’s easy to do. Just remove two letters from the end of the infinitive and you have the ending — one of -ar, -er or -ir. What’s left is the stem. So for vomitar:

• the stem is: vomit-
• and the ending is: -ar

Use the stem vomit- in each person as the basis for the conjugation, the common prefix or root that each of the forms begins with. Next, add to this regular stem the endings specific to each person. Check out the image showing all the endings. Note the shapes and colors of the letters. It will help you find patterns and make it easier to remember these endings.Each grammatical person has a specific ending in each of the three conjugation groups -ar, -er, -ir. Add the regular ending -aba for the first person singular to create vomitaba:

• yo vomitaba – I vomited

Similarly add the regular ending -abas for the second person singular to create vomitabas:

• tú vomitabas – you vomited

And exactly as previously add the regular ending -aba for the third person singular to create vomitaba:

• él vomitaba – he vomited
• ella vomitaba – she vomited
• usted vomitaba – (formal) you vomited

Similarly add the regular ending -ábamos for the first person plural to create vomitábamos. Note difference in spelling

Only the first person plural has an accent here.

This difference exists only in case of the verbs from the -ar group. Other groups always have an accented i in the ending in this tense.So add the accent to get vomitábamos:

• nosotros vomitábamos – we vomited
• nosotras vomitábamos – (feminine) we vomited

And add the regular ending -abais for the second person plural to create vomitabais:

• vosotros vomitabais – (plural) you vomited
• vosotras vomitabais – (feminine, plural) you vomited

Like in the previous case add the regular ending -aban for the third person plural to create vomitaban:

• ellos vomitaban – they vomited
• ellas vomitaban – (feminine) they vomited
• ustedes vomitaban – (formal, plural) you vomited

¡Ya está! The conjugation is now complete. The final result looks as follows:

yo	vomitaba	I vomited
tú	vomitabas	you vomited
él/ella/usted	vomitaba	he/she/it vomited
nosotros/nosotras	vomitábamos	we vomited
vosotros/vosotras	vomitabais	you vomited
ellos/ellas/ustedes	vomitaban	they vomited

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Example sentences

Next Steps to Perfection To practice this conjugation and test yourself check 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 vomitar visit our Exercise section To see conjugation charts in all tenses for vomitar visit the Conjugator To explore other learning materials visit the Study section

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