duermo

Duermo is the first-person singular form of the Spanish verb dormir in the present indicative tense. It means “I sleep” and is used to express habitual actions or general statements about sleeping. For ongoing actions, Spanish typically uses the present progressive: estoy durmiendo, not yo duermo.

Dormir is an irregular, stem-changing verb. In the present tense, the forms are yo duermo, tú duermes, él duerme, nosotros dormimos, vosotros dormís, ellos duermen. The stem changes from o to ue in all forms except for nosotros and vosotros, which keep the regular dorm- stem (dormimos, dormís). Beyond the present tense, dormir is used in a variety of constructions related to sleep, rest, or inactivity, and it shares cognates with other Romance languages (dormir in Spanish, dormir in French, dormire in Italian, etc.).

Etymology traces dormir to Latin dormire, meaning “to sleep,” with cognates in many Romance languages. The related forms include the gerund durmiendo (used in progressive tenses such as estoy durmiendo) and the past participle dormido (asleep).

Examples: Yo duermo ocho horas cada noche. ¿A qué hora duermes normalmente? Él duerme temprano, y a veces encuentra dificultad para dormir bien. The verb dormir is often taught with its common irregular present tense and contrasted with the regular infinitive dormir and its derived forms.