Querer conjugation and meaning

Use the present forms of querer for current situations, routines and actions that happen regularly.

Use present haber with querido for a completed action connected to the present.

Use the preterite when the action of querer is presented as completed in the past.

Use the imperfect for repeated or ongoing past uses of querer, or for background information.

Use imperfect haber with querido for an action completed before another past point.

Use the future forms of querer for predictions, promises and future statements.

Use future haber with querido for an action that will be complete before a future point.

Use the conditional forms of querer for hypothetical or tactful statements.

Use conditional haber with querido for a hypothetical completed past action.

Use these forms when a current wish, reaction, doubt or another trigger requires the subjunctive.

Use present-subjunctive haber with querido for a completed action in a present subjunctive context.

Use these forms for past subjunctive contexts and hypothetical structures; the equivalent -se series is also accepted where supplied.

Use imperfect-subjunctive haber with querido for an unreal or earlier completed past action.

Choose the affirmative command of querer that matches the person being addressed.

Use no with the matching command form of querer.