Trabajar: Full Conjugation

Trabajar means "to work" and is a perfectly regular -ar verb. Every ending it takes is the standard pattern you will see in thousands of other regular -ar verbs, so memorizing trabajar gives you a template for the whole group.

In Latin American Spanish, trabajar covers both paid employment and general work or effort. To say where you work, use trabajar en; to say what you do, use trabajar de or trabajar como followed by the profession.

Present Indicative

Preterite

Imperfect

Future

Conditional

Present Subjunctive

Imperfect Subjunctive (-ra forms)

Imperative

Non-Finite Forms

• Infinitive: trabajar
• Gerund: trabajando
• Past participle: trabajado

Common Uses

Use trabajar en to say where you work, and trabajar de / trabajar como to say what role you hold. The noun el trabajo means both "work" and "job."