decir

to say, to tellirregular-ir verb
Where it breaks the pattern
  • irregular first-person form
  • e → i when the stem is stressed
  • irregular preterite stem; the 1s and 3s endings are unstressed, so they carry no written accent
  • irregular future stem; the endings themselves are regular
  • conditional shares the irregular future stem
  • present subjunctive is built from the irregular yo form
  • imperfect subjunctive is built from the third-person preterite stem
  • irregular past participle
  • e → i outside the present

Indicativo: decir conjugation

PresentePretéritoImperfectoFuturoCondicional
yodigodijedecíadirédiría
túdicesdijistedecíasdirásdirías
él / ella / Ud.dicedijodecíadirádiría
nosotrosdecimosdijimosdecíamosdiremosdiríamos
vosotrosdecísdijisteisdecíaisdiréisdiríais
ellos / Uds.dicendijerondecíandirándirían

Participio: dicho · Gerundio: diciendo

irregular form

In use

Real sentences with the conjugated form highlighted, from Tatoeba, licensed under CC BY 2.0 FR.

  • No se lo digas a nadie, por favor.

    Please don't tell anyone.

  • No te creas nada de lo que digan.

    Don't believe anything they say.

  • Tom no se lo dijo a nadie más.

    Tom didn't tell anyone else.

Built on decir

These verbs are decir with a prefix, and they inherit its irregular forms.

Other e → i stem-changing verbs

The stem vowel e becomes i when it is stressed, a pattern limited to -ir verbs.