Dormir Conjugation | Meaning & Pronunciation

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Dormir 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.

Dormir Conjugation French

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:

The Present Tense of **Dormir**
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.

Is Dormir irregular in Spanish?

As we’ve seen, dormir is an irregular verb. To conjugate it in the subjunctive, we need TWO different irregular stems: duerm- for the singular pronouns (yo/tú/él/ella/usted) and the plural ellos/ellas.