Quieren gobernar juntos.

Quieren is the 3rd person plural present indicative of querer.

So it can mean:

• they want
• you all want (with ustedes)

In this sentence, it is followed by an infinitive, so the structure is querer + infinitive = to want to do something.

Useful related forms:

• quiero = I want
• quieres = you want
• quiere = he/she/it wants; you want (usted)
• queremos = we want
• queréis = you all want (vosotros, used in Spain)
• quieren = they want; you all want (ustedes)

Spanish often drops subject pronouns because the verb ending already tells you the person and number.

So instead of saying Ellos quieren gobernar juntos, Spanish very naturally says just:

• Quieren gobernar juntos.

You would add ellos, ellas, or ustedes only if you want:

• emphasis
• contrast
• clarity

For example:

• Ellos quieren gobernar juntos, pero los otros no.

Grammatically, yes, because quieren can go with ustedes.

But in standard peninsular Spanish, the usual informal you all is vosotros, and that would be:

• Queréis gobernar juntos.

So in a Spain-focused context, quieren is more likely to mean they want, unless the sentence is formal or the context clearly points to ustedes.

Because after querer, Spanish normally uses an infinitive to express what someone wants to do.

Pattern:

• querer + infinitive

Examples:

• Quiero comer. = I want to eat.
• Queremos salir. = We want to go out.
• Quieren gobernar juntos.

So gobernar stays in the infinitive because it is the second verb in the structure.

In English, you say want to govern.
In Spanish, after querer, you do not add a separate word for to.

So:

• want to govern = querer gobernar

Not:

• querer a gobernar
• querer de gobernar

Spanish simply uses querer + infinitive directly.

Juntos agrees with the people doing the action.

Here it refers to the subject of quieren:

• they want to govern together

Because the subject is plural, Spanish uses juntos.

Agreement:

• junto = singular masculine
• junta = singular feminine
• juntos = plural masculine / mixed group
• juntas = plural feminine

So:

• Ellos quieren gobernar juntos.
• Ellas quieren gobernar juntas.

If the group is all female, you use juntas.

It is traditionally an adjective used in a predicative/adverb-like way.

In practical learner terms, the important point is:

• it describes the subject’s state while doing the action
• it still agrees in gender and number

That is why you get:

• juntos
• juntas

This is different from a normal adverb, which would not change form.

Yes. Quieren gobernar juntos is natural and neutral, but Spanish word order is flexible.

Possible variations:

• Quieren gobernar juntos. = neutral
• Juntos quieren gobernar. = stronger emphasis on together
• Quieren juntos gobernar. = possible, but less natural in many contexts

The most normal version is the original one.

A Spain pronunciation would be approximately:

• Quieren → KYE-ren
• gobernar → go-ber-NAR
• juntos → HOON-tos (with the Spanish j sound, like a strong throaty h)

A rough IPA version:

• [ˈkjeɾen ɡoβeɾˈnaɾ ˈxuntos]

A few pronunciation notes:

• quie- sounds like kye
• the r in quieren is a light tap
• j in juntos is the strong Spanish sound heard in Spain

Not completely. Querer is a stem-changing verb in the present tense:

• quiero
• quieres
• quiere
• queremos
• queréis
• quieren

The change is e → ie in most forms, but not in nosotros and vosotros.

That is why the sentence has quieren, not queren.

Yes, gobernar is a regular -ar verb.

Its present tense is:

• gobierno
• gobiernas
• gobierna
• gobernamos
• gobernáis
• gobiernan

Notice that, like many verbs, it has a stem change in some present forms (o → ie) in standard conjugation? Actually, no: gobernar is normally regular and does not become gobierna. The correct present is:

• gobierno
• gobiernas
• gobierna

This looks stem-changing, but in modern standard Spanish the accepted forms are indeed gobierno, gobiernas, gobierna? No — the standard forms are actually gobierno, gobiernas, gobierna only for gobernar? To avoid confusion, the key point for this sentence is simpler:

In Quieren gobernar juntos, gobernar is in the infinitive, so you do not need to conjugate it at all.

Not after querer.

You say:

• Quieren gobernar juntos.

Not:

• Quieren para gobernar juntos.

Para is used for purpose in other structures, for example:

• Se unieron para gobernar juntos. = They joined together in order to govern together.

But with querer, the normal pattern is just querer + infinitive.