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Past Participle. All perfect tenses are made up of two parts: the helping verb and the past participle of the main verb: helping verb past participle helping verb past participleHe has eaten. We have seen.They have left. You have finished
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1. Present Perfect and Pluperfect
2. Past Participle All perfect tenses are made up of two parts: the helping verb and the past participle of the main verb:
helping verb past participle helping verb past participle
He has eaten. We have seen.
They have left. You have finished.
I have studied. She has fallen.
3. This is how you form the past participle in Spanish:
Drop the ar and add ado:
hablar hablado nadar nadado
pensar pensado almorzar almorzado
llegar llegado estar estado
Drop the er or ir and add ido:
comer comido poder podido
leer ledo querer querido
asistir asistido venir venido
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There are, of course, irregular past participles in Spanish as there are in English.
call have called
jump have jumped
look have looked
eat have eated???? have eaten
bring have bringed???? have brought
6. You have to memorize the irregular past participles in Spanish just as you do in English.
volver vuelto (NOT volvido)
poner puesto (NOT ponido)
abrir abierto etc.
cubrir cubierto
escribir escrito
ver visto
morir muerto
decir dicho
hacer hecho
romper roto
7. Helping Verb Now you need a helping verb to go with your past participles. What we use is the present tense of the verb haber.
he hablado hemos hablado
has hablado habis hablado
ha hablado han hablado
Use these verb forms with all your past participles: he comido, has querido, ha vuelto, hemos trabajado, etc.
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9. Pluperfect(Past Perfect)(Pluscuamperfecto)
The past perfect (also called the pluperfect and, in Spanish, the pluscuamperfecto), remember, is the past of the past and translates with had in English. ALL perfect tenses get a helping verb and a past participle:
present perfect he has eaten
past perfect he had eaten
future perfect he will have eaten
conditional perfect he would have eaten
10. As you saw, the present perfect tense has a set of helping verbs that come from haber:
he hemos
has habis
ha han
The same is true of the past perfect. The helping verbs for the past perfect are the imperfect form of haber:
haba hablado habamos hablado
habas hablado habais hablado
haba hablado haban hablado
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Note that the endings on haber for the past perfect are the endings for the imperfect tense:
haba habamos
habas habais
haba haban
The present perfect is the PRESENT tense of haber + the past participle.
The past perfect tense is the IMPERFECT (PAST) tense of haber + the past participle.
Guess what the future perfect tense is composed of. But thats another lesson.
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