Dormir Conjugation | Meaning & Pronunciation
0Dormir Conjugation: Ah, sleep! So essential to life, and at times so elusive to some of us! At one time or another, you may find yourself talking about your sleeping habits with friends. For this lesson, we’ll see how that is done in Spanish with the verb dormir (pronounced dor-MEER), ‘to sleep’.
No matter where you are, you’re going to need sleep. If you’re with Spanish speakers, you’ll want to know how to talk about it. Rather than inventing new words or gesturing, this lesson will help you say exactly what you want to say when talking about sleep in the present.

Perhaps one never misses sleep more than when a new life has been added to a family. To understand dormir in context, let’s look at an example. You see your friend Mariana with her new baby. Like any new mother, Mariana’s sleep patterns have changed, and you both want to talk about it.
Seeing the lovely little one, you ask Mariana:
Duerme por toda la noche? (Does she sleep all night?)
Mariana: No, ella no duerme toda la noche. Ella se despierta cada dos horas. (No, she doesn’t sleep all night. She wakes up every two hours.)
You: Entonces tú no duermes mucho, ¿verdad? (So you don’t sleep a lot, right?)
Mariana: No, yo no duermo mucho. (No, I don’t sleep a lot.)
You: Y duermen ustedes durante el día? (And do you all sleep during the day?)
Mariana: Sí, dormimos después del almuerzo. ¡Yo duermo cuando ella duerme! (Yes, we sleep after lunch. I sleep when she sleeps!)
Dormir Conjugation Spanish

Spanish verbs fall into different groups, and each group is conjugated a little differently. If you’re going to master Spanish verbs like dormir, 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).
In the present tense, dormir (dohr-meer) (to sleep) has an o-to–ue stem change in all but the nosotros and vosotros forms. Here’s the present tense conjugation:
Conjugation | Translation |
---|---|
yo duermo | I sleep |
tú duermes | You (informal) sleep |
él/ella/ello/uno duerme | He/she/one sleeps |
usted duerme | You (formal) sleep |
nosotros dormimos | We sleep |
vosotros dormís | You all (informal) sleep |
ellos/ellas duermen | They sleep |
ustedes duermen | You all (formal) sleep |
Dormir Preterite Conjugation
Within irregular -ir verbs, there are some patterns. Two groups exhibit similar characteristics and conjugation patterns. Then there is a final, large category of extremely irregular -ir verbs that follow no pattern.
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Dormir lies in the first group of irregular -ir verbs that display a pattern. It includes dormir, mentir, partir, sentir, servir, sortir, and all of their derivatives, such as repartir. All of these verbs share this characteristic: They all drop the last letter of the radical (root) in the singular conjugations. For instance, the first-person singular of dormir is je dors (no “m”), and the first-person plural is nous dormons, which retains the “m” from the root. The more you can recognize these patterns, the easier it will be to remember conjugations.
Conjugation Of Dormir
Present | Preterite | Imperfect | Conditional | Future | |
yo |
duermo
|
dormí
|
dormía
|
dormiría
|
dormiré
|
tú |
duermes
|
dormiste
|
dormías
|
dormirías
|
dormirás
|
él/ella/Ud. |
duerme
|
durmió
|
dormía
|
dormiría
|
dormirá
|
nosotros |
dormimos
|
dormimos
|
dormíamos
|
dormiríamos
|
dormiremos
|
vosotros |
dormís
|
dormisteis
|
dormíais
|
dormiríais
|
dormiréis
|
ellos/ellas/Uds. |
duermen
|
durmieron
|
dormían
|
dormirían
|
dormirán
|
Subjunctive
Present | Imperfect | Imperfect 2 | Future | |
yo |
duerma
|
durmiera
|
durmiese
|
durmiere
|
tú |
duermas
|
durmieras
|
durmieses
|
durmieres
|
él/ella/Ud. |
duerma
|
durmiera
|
durmiese
|
durmiere
|
nosotros |
durmamos
|
durmiéramos
|
durmiésemos
|
durmiéremos
|
vosotros |
durmáis
|
durmierais
|
durmieseis
|
durmiereis
|
ellos/ellas/Uds. |
duerman
|
durmieran
|
durmiesen
|
durmieren
|
Imperative
Affirmative | Negative | |
yo |
–
|
–
|
tú |
duerme
|
no duermas
|
Ud. |
duerma
|
no duerma
|
nosotros |
durmamos
|
no durmamos
|
vosotros |
dormid
|
no durmáis
|
Uds. |
duerman
|
no duerman
|
Is Dormir a regular verb?
Dormir (“to sleep”) is a very common, irregular -ir verb in the French language. The verb is part of an important set of irregular -ir verbs that share conjugation patterns. Dormir lies in the first group of irregular -ir verbs that display a pattern.
Is Dormir masculine or feminine?
A noun is either masculine or feminine. As you might have guessed, the word for ‘woman,’ femme, is feminine. To say ‘a woman’ we say une femme. And yes, the word for ‘man,’ homme, is masculine.