insidiar

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin īnsidiārī.

Verb

insidiar (first-person singular present insidio, first-person singular preterite insidié, past participle insidiado)

1. (rare) to set a trap

Conjugation

    Conjugation of insidiar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			insidiar
gerund			insidiando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		insidiado		insidiada
		plural		insidiados		insidiadas
		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	insidio	insidiastú insidiásvos	insidia	insidiamos	insidiáis	insidian
	imperfect	insidiaba	insidiabas	insidiaba	insidiábamos	insidiabais	insidiaban
	preterite	insidié	insidiaste	insidió	insidiamos	insidiasteis	insidiaron
	future	insidiaré	insidiarás	insidiará	insidiaremos	insidiaréis	insidiarán
	conditional	insidiaría	insidiarías	insidiaría	insidiaríamos	insidiaríais	insidiarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	insidie	insidiestú insidiésvos2	insidie	insidiemos	insidiéis	insidien
	imperfect (ra)	insidiara	insidiaras	insidiara	insidiáramos	insidiarais	insidiaran
	imperfect (se)	insidiase	insidiases	insidiase	insidiásemos	insidiaseis	insidiasen
	future1	insidiare	insidiares	insidiare	insidiáremos	insidiareis	insidiaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		insidiatú insidiávos	insidie	insidiemos	insidiad	insidien
	negative		no insidies	no insidie	no insidiemos	no insidiéis	no insidien

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

Related terms

• insidia
• insidiador

 

Further reading

• “insidiar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28