Conjugating the Spanish Verb Caminar (to Walk)

Spanish verbs fall into different groups, and each group is conjugated a little differently. If you’re going to master Spanish verbs like caminar, you need to be able to identify which group a verb belongs to: regular (follows regular conjugation rules for -ar, -er, and -ir verbs), stem-changing (morphs depending on how you use it in a sentence), spelling-changing (has consonant-spelling changes in some forms to follow pronunciation rules), or reflexive (reflects the action back on the subject of the sentence).

Caminar (kah-mee-nahr) (to walk) is a regular verb of the -ar persuasion, so its conjugation is pretty straightforward. Here it is in the present tense:

The following examples show you caminar at work:

• Yo camino en el parque todos los domingos. (I walk in the park every Sunday.)

• Ellos caminan a su perro mucho. (They walk their dog a lot.)

Need to know how to conjugate caminar in another tense? The following tables show you the preterit, imperfect, and future forms.

You use the preterit tense like this:

• ¿Caminaste al centro esta mañana? (Did you walk downtown this morning?)

• Caminé hasta el teatro esta tarde. (I walked to the theater this afternoon.)

Check out these examples of the imperfect tense:

• ¿Caminabas con tu papá todos los días? (Did you use to walk with your dad every day? )

• Caminaban siempre con sus amigos. (They always walked with their friends.)

The following samples show the future tense in action:

• ¿Caminarán ustedes por esa calle? (Will you walk along that street?)

• Caminaremos con cuidado por ese lugar. (We will walk carefully by that place.)