reduje

Reduje is the first-person singular form of the Spanish verb reducir in the pretérito indefinido (preterite). The verb reducir means to reduce, lower, or lessen something. Reduje is used to describe a completed past action in which the speaker personally performed the reduction.

The preterite forms of reducir follow an irregular pattern typical of -ducir verbs. The full set is: reduje, redujiste, redujo, redujimos, redujisteis, redujeron. In most preterite forms, the stem changes from redu- to reduj-, and in the third-person plural the ending is -eron rather than -ieron, yielding redujeron.

Usage notes:

- Reduje casi todo el presupuesto disponible. (I reduced almost all of the available budget.)

- Ayer reduje la velocidad del proyecto para evitar retrasos. (Yesterday I reduced the project’s speed to avoid delays.)

- The verb is commonly used in narrative past contexts to indicate actions completed in the past that result in a smaller quantity, size, degree, or scope.

Related forms include reduciendo (gerund), reducido (past participle), and other tenses of reducir, such as reduzco in the present indicative or reducía in the imperfect. While reduje specifically marks a past, completed action by the speaker, other tenses convey ongoing or hypothetical reductions. Reduje is distinct from related verbs formed with different stems, but it shares the same semantic core of decreasing or diminishing something.