To return in Spanish 🇪🇸

Pronunciation

Normal Speech: vol-VER

7 months ago

Memory tip

You can think of the word revolver or just revolve. If something is revolving, it circles around a single point. In other words, it keeps returning. Volver=to return.

8 months ago

volver info.

Tips to remember “volver”:
1. You could associate “volver” with “revolve,” as when you revolve, you turn back or return to a point.
2. Think of flying back “over” to where you started — VO-LVER.

Explanations:
– “Volver” is translated as “to return” or “to come back”.
– It indicates a return to a place or a return to a previous state of being.

Other words that mean the same thing:
– Regresar (to return, to come back)
– Retornar (to return, to come back)

Conjugations of “volver”:
– Infinitive: volver
– Present: vuelvo (I return), vuelves (you return, singular informal), vuelve (he/she/you formal returns), volvemos (we return), volvéis (you return, plural informal, used in Spain), vuelven (they/you all return)
– Preterite: volví (I returned), volviste (you returned), volvió (he/she/you formal returned), volvimos (we returned), volvisteis (you all returned, in Spain), volvieron (they/you all returned)
– Imperfect: volvía (I used to return), volvías (you used to return), volvía (he/she/you formal used to return), volvíamos (we used to return), volvíais (you all used to return, in Spain), volvían (they/you all used to return)
– Future: volveré (I will return), volverás (you will return), volverá (he/she/you formal will return), volveremos (we will return), volveréis (you all will return, in Spain), volverán (they/you all will return)
– Conditional: volvería (I would return), volverías (you would return), volvería (he/she/you formal would return), volveríamos (we would return), volveríais (you all would return, in Spain), volverían (they/you all would return)
– Present Subjunctive: vuelva (I return), vuelvas (you return), vuelva (he/she/you formal returns), volvamos (we return), volváis (you all return, in Spain), vuelvan (they/you all return)
– Imperfect Subjunctive: volviera or volviese (I returned), volvieras or volvieses (you returned), volviera or volviese (he/she/you formal returned), volviéramos or volviésemos (we returned), volvierais or volvieseis (you all returned, in Spain), volvieran or volviesen (they/you all returned)
– Imperative: vuelve (you return, singular informal), vuelva (he/she/you formal return), volvamos (let’s return), volved (you return, plural informal, used in Spain), vuelvan (they/you all return)
– Gerund (Present participle): volviendo (returning)
– Past participle: vuelto (returned)

Examples of sentences that use “volver”:
– Vuelvo a casa después del trabajo. (I return home after work.)
– Ayer volví temprano del viaje. (I returned early from the trip yesterday.)
– Si pudiera, volvería a mi juventud. (If I could, I would return to my youth.)
– ¿Volverás a visitarnos pronto? (Will you return to visit us soon?)
– Estaban volviendo cuando comenzó a llover. (They were returning when it started to rain.)
– No vuelvas a hacer eso, por favor. (Please don’t do that again.)

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