Spanish Verb Caminar Conjugation

The verb caminar in Spanish means to walk. This article provides the conjugations for caminar in the present, past and future indicative, the present and past subjunctive, the imperative, and other verb forms.

How to Use the Spanish Verb Caminar?

Caminar can be used both as a transitive and intransitive verb. It can be an intransitive verb as in Ella camina a la escuela (She walks to school) or Nosotros caminamos para hacer ejercicio (We walk for exercise).

Caminar can also be used as a transitive verb to describe the distance one travels, such as Yo camino tres millas cada mañana (I walk three miles each morning) or Ellos caminaron cinco cuadras (They walked five blocks). However, caminar cannot be used transitively like it is used in English to say "to walk something or someone." For example, in English you can say "He walks the dog." In Spanish, you have to use a different construction, such as Él saca al perro a caminar, Él pasea al perro or Él saca al perro a pasear.

Caminar Conjugation

The verb caminar is a regular verb with the ending -ar. Therefore, it follows the rules for conjugating other regular -ar verbs like ayudar or necesitar.

Caminar Present Indicative

Caminar Preterite Indicative

There are two forms of the past tense in Spanish: the preterite and the imperfect. The preterite is used to talk about punctual events in the past, or events that have a defined ending in the past.

Caminar Imperfect Indicative

The imperfect tense is used to talk about ongoing or habitual actions in the past, and it can be translated as "was walking" or "used to walk".

Caminar Future Indicative

Caminar Periphrastic Future Indicative

Periphrastic refers to a multi-word construction. In English, the equivalent in this case is the conjugated form of the verb to be followed by "going to walk." The conjugated verb ir (to go) is used for the periphrastic future in Spanish.

Caminar Present Progressive/Gerund Form

The present participle or gerund of -ar verbs is formed by dropping the ending and adding -ando. This verb form is used for progressive tenses such as the present progressive.

Present Progressive of Caminar: está caminando

is walking -> Ella está caminando a la escuela.

Caminar Past Participle

The past participle of -ar verbs is formed by dropping the ending and adding -ado. This verb form is used for compound tenses, such as the present perfect.

Present Perfect of Caminar: ha caminado 

has walked -> Ella ha caminado a la escuela. 

Caminar Conditional Indicative

Caminar Present Subjunctive

The subjunctive mood is used to talk about emotions, doubts, desires, probabilities, or other subjective situations.

Caminar Imperfect Subjunctive

The imperfect subjunctive is used in similar situations as the present subjunctive, but in situations that took place in the past. There are two options to conjugate the imperfect subjunctive. You can use either one of these options.

Option 1

Option 2

Caminar Imperative 

The imperative mood is used to give orders or commands. If you want to tell someone to walk or not to walk, then you can use these forms. Notice that there are slightly different forms for the positive and negative commands.

Positive Commands

Negative Commands