What does querer mean?
querer means to want, to love in English. It is a stem-changing and irregular stem and one of the verbs Spanish learners should recognize quickly because it appears in everyday speech, stories, instructions, and classroom practice.
Learning a verb well means more than memorizing one form. You need to see how the verb changes with different subjects, how it behaves in the past, and how it sounds in practical sentences. This page gives you a compact reference for querer and connects it to related VerbyGo practice pages.
querer conjugation table
Use this table as a starting point for active recall. Cover one column, say the pronoun, and try to produce the form before checking the answer.
| Pronoun | Present | Preterite | Imperfect | Future |
|---|
| yo |
quiero |
quise |
quería |
querré |
| tú |
quieres |
quisiste |
querías |
querrás |
| él / ella / usted |
quiere |
quiso |
quería |
querrá |
| nosotros/as |
queremos |
quisimos |
queríamos |
querremos |
| ellos/as / ustedes |
quieren |
quisieron |
querían |
querrán |
Examples with querer
- Quiero aprender más verbos. I want to learn more verbs.
- Ella quería descansar. She wanted to rest.
- Querremos practicar cada día. We will want to practice every day.
Read each example as a full sentence. This helps you connect the form to meaning, not just to a chart. If a form feels difficult, practice it with several pronouns before moving to a new tense.
Practice prompts
- Conjugate querer for yo in the present.
- Conjugate querer for ella in the preterite.
- Conjugate querer for nosotros/as in the imperfect.
- Write one sentence using querer in the future.
Practice querer online
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