cansaron

Cansaron is a form of the Spanish verb cansar. Cansar means to exhaust, tire, or bore someone or something. Cansaron is the preterite (simple past) form for the third-person plural subject: ellos, ellas, or ustedes. It is used when the subject causes fatigue in another entity.

In typical usage, cansaron conveys that a group or plural subject tired someone or something. Examples:

- Los cuestionarios cansaron a los asistentes. (The questionnaires tired the attendees.)

- El viaje cansó a la familia. (The trip tired the family.)

- La charla cansó a la audiencia. (The talk wore out the audience.)

Cansaron can also appear in constructions where the subject is a collective or plural noun, not only in reference to people. The reflexive form can be used to express that the subject itself became tired: se cansaron. Example: Después de la caminata, se cansaron. (After the hike, they got tired.)

Grammatical notes:

- Cansaron is the standard preterite form for ellos/ellas/ustedes. The corresponding forms include can-sé, can-sas, can-só (for other tenses and subjects) as part of the regular -ar verb conjugation.

- The verb is transitive: can-sar requires a direct object to indicate who is being fatigued (cansar a alguien). The corresponding reflexive form se cansar describes the subject’s own fatigue (cansarse).

Cansar and its preterite cansaron are common in narrative and descriptive writing to indicate fatigue caused by actions or events. The adjective cansado describes states of tiredness, while cansar is the act of causing tiredness.