En esta hoja de ejercicios vamos a ver la conjugación de work en inglés, ¡y aprovecharemos para estudiar sus definiciones, sinónimos, expresiones relacionadas y phrasal verbs!
Tablas de conjugación de work en inglés
Conjugación del verbo work en indicativo
Verbo work en present simple
- I work
- You work
- He/she/it works
- We work
- You work
- They work
Verbo work en present continuous
- I am working
- You are working
- He/she/it is working
- We are working
- You are working
- They are working
Verbo work en past simple
- I worked
- You worked
- He/she/it worked
- We worked
- You worked
- They worked
Verbo work en past continuous
- I was working
- You were working
- He/she/it was working
- We were working
- You were working
- They were working
Verbo work en present perfect
- I have worked
- You have worked
- He/she/it has worked
- We have worked
- You have worked
- They have worked
Verbo work en present perfect continuous
- I have been working
- You have been working
- He/she/it has been working
- We have been working
- You have been working
- They have been working
Verbo work en past perfect
- I had worked
- You had worked
- He/she/it had worked
- We had worked
- You had worked
- They had worked
Verbo work en past perfect continuous
- I had been working
- You had been working
- He/she/it had been working
- We had been working
- You had been working
- They had been working
Verbo work en future
- I will work
- You will work
- He/she/it will work
- We will work
- You will work
- They will work
Verbo work en future continuous
- I will be working
- You will be working
- He/she/it will be working
- We will be working
- You will be working
- They will be working
Verbo work en future perfect
- I will have worked
- You will have worked
- He/she/it will have worked
- We will have worked
- You will have worked
- They will have worked
Verbo work en future perfect continuous
- I will have been working
- You will have been trabajando
- He/she/it will have been working
- We will have been working
- You will have been trabajando
- They will have been trabajando
Conjugación del verbo work en condicional
Verbo work en conditional present
- I would work
- You would work
- He/she/it would work
- We would work
- You would work
- They would work
Verbo work en conditional present continuous
- I would be working
- You would be working
- He/she/it would be working
- We would be working
- You would be working
- They would be working
Verbo work en conditional perfect
- I would have worked
- You would have worked
- He/she/it would have worked
- We would have worked
- You would have worked
- They would have worked
Verbo work en conditional perfect continuous
- I would have been working
- You would have been working
- He/she/it would have been working
- We would have been working
- You would have been working
- They would have been working
Otras formas
El infinitivo de work
- to work
Participio presente de work
- working
Participio pasado de work
- worked
El imperativo de work
- work
- let’s work
Definición de work en inglés
¿Qué significa el verbo work en inglés?
El Cambridge Dictionary ofrece varias definiciones del verbo work.
Veamos las principales:
1. To be effective or successful
I don’t think this will ever work.
→ No creo que funcione en la práctica.
2. To do a job, especially the job you do to earn money
He’s been working as a farmer for 10 years.
→ Lleva 10 años trabajando como agricultor.
3. To make a person or animal do a job
They were worked to a strict schedule.
→ Estaban sujetos a horarios estrictos.
4. If a machine or device works, it operates, especially correctly and without failure, and if you work it, you make it operate
My computer isn’t working anymore.
→ Mi ordenador ya no funciona.
5. To succeed gradually in becoming something or cause a person or thing to become something, either by making an effort or by making many small movements
The knots in the rope worked loose.
→ Los nudos de la cuerda se han deshecho.
6. To arrange for something to happen, especially by not using official methods and/or by being clever
We worked the situation and by the end of the week had signed a deal.
→ Estudiamos la situación y al final de la semana habíamos firmado un acuerdo.
7. To shape, change, or process a substance
Work the dough with your hands, forming it into a ball.
→ Trabaja la masa con las manos, formando una bola.
Para consultar la página completa del Cambridge Dictionary, haz clic aquí.
Phrasal verbs con work en inglés
Recordatorio: los phrasal verbs (o “verbos con partícula”) son verbos que, al ir seguidos de otra palabra (la partícula), completan o modifican su significado original.
Estos son los principales phrasal verbs formados con el verbo work:
- work against somebody/something → ir en contra de alguien/algo
- work around something → rodear, esquivar
- work on somebody (coloquial) → trabajar en alguien
- work on something → trabajar en algo
- work out → hacer deporte/ejercicio/musculación
- work somebody out (coloquial) → comprender/rodear
- work somebody over (familiar) → dar una paliza/pegar a alguien
- work somebody up → excitar/enervar
- work something down → bajar (un precio)
- work something in → hacer tiempo para/encontrar un hueco para
- work something in → introducir lentamente/insertar gradualmente
- work something off → quemar/gastar (calorías, por ejemplo)
- work something out (coloquial) → calcular
- work something out → resolver/encontrar una solución
- work through something → examinar
- work up something → preparar/elaborar
- work up to something (coloquial) → tratar de encontrar el valor para
Sinónimos de work en inglés
Según el contexto, se puede sustituir el verbo to work por uno de los siguientes verbos:
- achieve → lograr/conseguir
- cram (coloquial) → meter/llenar a reventar
- function → funcionar
- graft (coloquial) → trabajar duro
- labor → trabajar duro
- perform → realizar/llevar a cabo
- run → funcionar/ejecutar
- slave → trabajar como un esclavo
- slog (coloquial) → esforzarse/trabajar duro
- swot → empollar/estudiar mucho
Expresiones con work en inglés
- all in a day’s work (coloquial) → gajes del oficio
- be approved to work → ser considerado apto para el trabajo
- blood work (sustantivo) → análisis de sangre
- do the dirty work (argot) → hacer el trabajo sucio
- donkey work (sustantivo coloquial) → el trabajo pesado/el trabajo ingrato/el trabajo sucio
- get down to work (familier) → manos a la obra
- have your work cut out for you (coloquial) → tener mucho trabajo por delante
- keep up the good work → seguir así
- men at work → precaución obras (señal de tráfico)
- out-of-work (adjetivo) → desempleado
- work like a charm (coloquial) → funcionar perfectamente
- work like mad (coloquial) → trabajar como un loco
- work somebody into a frenzy → poner nervioso a alguien
- work up an appetite → abrir el apetito
- work wonders → hacer maravillas
- work yourself up → ponerse nervioso