Spanish Verb Pasar Conjugation

The Spanish verb pasar is often translated to English as its cognate "to pass." Pasar is a regular -ar verb, like ayudar, tratar or parar. This article includes pasar conjugations in the present, past and future indicative, the present and past subjunctive, as well as the imperative and other verb forms.

In Spanish, pasar has many different meanings and uses. One of the most common uses is to say "to occur" or "to happen." For example, if you wanted to say "What happened?" in Spanish, you would say "¿Qué pasó?"

Pasar Present Indicative

Pasar Preterite Indicative

There are two forms of the past tense in Spanish, the preterite and the imperfect. The preterite is usually translated to English as the simple past, and it is used to talk about completed or punctual events in the past. Notice that the last vowels of the yo and usted/él/ella forms in the preterite carry an accent mark.

Pasar Imperfect Indicative

The imperfect tense can be translated to English as "was passing" or "used to pass." It is used to talk about background events, ongoing or habitual actions in the past. 

Pasar Future Indicative

Pasar Periphrastic Future Indicative

Pasar Conditional Indicative

The conditional tense can be used to talk about possibilities or conjectures, or about things that would happen. The í in the conditional endings always carries an accent mark.

Pasar Present Progressive/Gerund Form

For regular -ar verbs, the present participle or gerund is formed with the ending -ando. This verb form can be used as an adverb or to form progressive tenses, such as the present progressive.

Present Progressive of Pasar

está pasando She is passing 

Ella está pasando mucho tiempo estudiando.

Pasar Past Participle

For regular -ar verbs, the past participle is formed with the ending -ado. This verb form can be used as an adjective or with an auxiliary verb to form compound tenses like the present perfect. 

Present Perfect of Pasar

ha pasado She has passed

Ella ha pasado mucho tiempo estudiando.

Pasar Present Subjunctive

The subjunctive mood can be used to talk about emotions, doubts, desires, possibilities, and other subjective situations. 

Pasar Imperfect Subjunctive

The imperfect subjunctive functions like the present subjunctive, but in situations that took place in the past. There are two different ways of conjugating the imperfect subjunctive, shown in the tables below.

Option 1

Option 2

Pasar Imperative 

Verbs conjugated in the imperative mood are used to give direct orders or commands. There are both positive and negative commands. For negative commands, add the adverb no before the command. Notice that there are some differences in the positive and negative commands for tú and vosotros.

Positive Commands

Negative Commands