Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Conjugating and constructing sentences with the Spanish word: ERIGIR

Hi, I'm writing this post just to practice my sentence building in Spanish. And for you to gradually familiarize with conjugation and sentence constructioon in Spanish as well. I hope you learn something from this kind of posts! 😎

So the verb we're gonna conjugate and use in sentences today is the verb "ERIGIR".

According to Barron's Spanish-English Pocket Dictionary, "erigir" is a verb that can means:
1. to build (synonym: construir)
2. to establish (synonym: fundar)

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First, let's conjugate the verb in the present, past and future tenses of the Indicative Mood.

Present 
Yo
erijo
Nosotr@s
erigimos
eriges
Vosotr@s
erigís
Él/ella
erige
Ellos/ellas
erigen
Usted
erige
Ustedes
erigen
Past
Yo
erigí
Nosotr@s
erigimos
erigiste
Vosotr@s
erigisteis
Él/ella
erigió
Ellos/ellas
erigieron
Usted
erigió
Ustedes
erigieron
Future
Yo
erigiré
Nosotr@s
erigiremos
erigirás
Vosotr@s
erigireis
Él/ella
erigirá
Ellos/ellas
erigirán
Usted
erigirá
Ustedes
erigirán


Then, let´s conjugate "erigir" in the present and imperfect/past tenses (both -RA and -SE forms) of the Subjunctive Mood.

Yo
erija
Nosotr@s
erijamos
erijas
Vosotr@s
erijáis
Él/ella
erija
Ellos/ellas
erijan
Usted
erija
Ustedes
erijan
Yo
erigiese
Nosotr@s
erigiésemos
erigieses
Vosotr@s
erigiéseis
Él/ella
erigiese
Ellos/ellas
erigiesen
Usted
erigiese
Ustedes
erigiesen
Yo
erigiera
Nosotr@s
erigiéramos
erigieras
Vosotr@s
erigiérais
Él/ella
erigiera
Ellos/ellas
erigieran
Usted
erigiera
Ustedes
erigieran


Its present participle(gerund) and the past participle are the following:

erigiendo
erigido



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Now let's make some sentences containing the verb "ERIGIR".

Sense #1 TO BUILD/CONSTRUCT

Los albañiles erigen casas y otros edificios.  --> Masons build houses and other buildings.



La Gran Pirámide de Guiza fue erigida en el siglo XXVI a. C. --> The Great Pyramid of Giza was built in the 26th century B.C.



Sense #2 of "erigir" TO ESTABLISH/FOUND

Esa empresa se erigió hace más de veinte años. --> That company was founded more that twenty years ago.


SO, THAT'S ALL FOR TODAY!! I hope this post has been educational for you! And I'd like to challenge you...  On the comment below write down at least one sentence containing the word "ERIGIR"... OK?  😉

Buena suerte!! 🍀
Y hasta la próxima!! 👋