despotizar

Spanish

Verb

despotizar (first-person singular present despotizo, first-person singular preterite despoticé, past participle despotizado)

1. (South America) to despotize; to govern despotically

Conjugation

    Conjugation of despotizar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			despotizar
gerund			despotizando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		despotizado		despotizada
		plural		despotizados		despotizadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	despotizo	despotizastú despotizásvos	despotiza	despotizamos	despotizáis	despotizan
	imperfect	despotizaba	despotizabas	despotizaba	despotizábamos	despotizabais	despotizaban
	preterite	despoticé	despotizaste	despotizó	despotizamos	despotizasteis	despotizaron
	future	despotizaré	despotizarás	despotizará	despotizaremos	despotizaréis	despotizarán
	conditional	despotizaría	despotizarías	despotizaría	despotizaríamos	despotizaríais	despotizarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	despotice	despoticestú despoticésvos2	despotice	despoticemos	despoticéis	despoticen
	imperfect (ra)	despotizara	despotizaras	despotizara	despotizáramos	despotizarais	despotizaran
	imperfect (se)	despotizase	despotizases	despotizase	despotizásemos	despotizaseis	despotizasen
	future1	despotizare	despotizares	despotizare	despotizáremos	despotizareis	despotizaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		despotizatú despotizávos	despotice	despoticemos	despotizad	despoticen
	negative		no despotices	no despotice	no despoticemos	no despoticéis	no despoticen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Further reading

• “despotizar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10