infectáis

Infectéis is a Spanish verb form. It corresponds to the second-person plural present subjunctive of the verb infectar, which means to cause infection or contamination. This form is not used as a standalone verb but as a mood-marked conjugation in subordinate clauses or after certain expressions.

Morphology and conjugation. The present subjunctive of infectar for different subject pronouns is: yo infecte, tú infectes, él/ella infecte, nosotros infectemos, vosotros infectéis, ellos infecten. The vosotros form infectéis is characteristic of the second-person plural in regions that use the informal second-person plural form, notably Spain. In much of Latin America, the corresponding subject form is ustedes, with the present subjunctive infecten.

Usage. The present subjunctive is used in sentences that express doubt, desire, possibility, necessity, or other attitudes rather than direct statements of fact. Infectéis appears in subordinate clauses introduced by que or in contexts requiring subjunctive mood, such as after expressions like es posible que or quiero que. Because of regional variation in pronoun usage, some speakers in Spain frequently employ the vosotros form, while speakers in Latin America are more likely to use ustedes with the corresponding subjunctive form infecten.

Etymology. The verb infectar derives from Latin infectare, itself from infectus (“tainted” or “unwholesome”) with the prefix in-. The present subjunctive forms inherit the regular conjugation pattern for -ar verbs in the subjunctive mood.

Notes. Infectéis is primarily a grammatical form. It is not a standalone lexical item in common discourse and is mainly relevant for language learners, linguists, and educators examining verb conjugation and regional variation in Spanish.