existimar

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Old Latin aestumō

Latin aestimō

Latin exīstimārebor.

Spanish existimar

Borrowed from Latin exīstimāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɡsistiˈmaɾ/ [eɣ̞.sis.t̪iˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: e‧xis‧ti‧mar

Verb

existimar (first-person singular present existimo, first-person singular preterite existimé, past participle existimado) (transitive, uncommon)

1. to judge, to form an opinion
2. to take something as true, although it may not be

Conjugation

    Conjugation of existimar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			existimar
gerund			existimando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		existimado		existimada
		plural		existimados		existimadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	existimo	existimastú existimásvos	existima	existimamos	existimáis	existiman
	imperfect	existimaba	existimabas	existimaba	existimábamos	existimabais	existimaban
	preterite	existimé	existimaste	existimó	existimamos	existimasteis	existimaron
	future	existimaré	existimarás	existimará	existimaremos	existimaréis	existimarán
	conditional	existimaría	existimarías	existimaría	existimaríamos	existimaríais	existimarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	existime	existimestú existimésvos2	existime	existimemos	existiméis	existimen
	imperfect (ra)	existimara	existimaras	existimara	existimáramos	existimarais	existimaran
	imperfect (se)	existimase	existimases	existimase	existimásemos	existimaseis	existimasen
	future1	existimare	existimares	existimare	existimáremos	existimareis	existimaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		existimatú existimávos	existime	existimemos	existimad	existimen
	negative		no existimes	no existime	no existimemos	no existiméis	no existimen

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

Related terms

• existimativo

Further reading

• “existimar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025