Notes #8 The past perfect indicative (el pretérito pluscuamperfecto del indicativo) is used to talk about what someone had done or what had occurred before another past action, event, or state. Like the present perfect, the past perfect uses a form of haber—in this case, the imperfect—plus the past participle. ©2014 by Vista Higher Learning, Inc. All rights reserved.
To express an action that had already occurred before something else (more recent) happened in the past. Both actions are in the past, the one occurring before the other. To form, use: imperfect tense of verb HABER + past participle
HABLAR había hablado habíamos hablado habías hablado X había hablado habían hablado Ejemplos: --JoJo ya había surfeado cuando su amigo llegó a California. --Yo ya había salido cuando empezó el partido de baloncesto.
PALABRAS USADAS EN EL PASADO PERFECTO AS SOON AS- En cuanto BY THE TIME-Para cuando AFTER-despues BEFORE-antes WHEN-cuando Already- Ya
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The past perfect is often used with the word ya (already) to indicate that an action, event, or state had already occurred before another. Remember that, unlike its English equivalent, ya cannot be placed between haber and the past participle. ©2014 by Vista Higher Learning, Inc. All rights reserved.
¡Atención! The past perfect is often used in conjunction with antes de + [noun] or antes de + [infinitive] to describe when the action(s) occurred. ©2014 by Vista Higher Learning, Inc. All rights reserved.
Indica el pretérito pluscuamperfecto de indicativo de cada verbo. Nosotros ya __________________ (cenar) cuando nos llamaron. Antes de tomar esta clase, yo no __________ (estudiar) nunca el español. Antes de ir a México, ellos nunca __________ (ir) a otro país. Eduardo nunca __________ (entrenarse) tanto en invierno. Tú siempre __________ (llevar) una vida sana antes del año pasado. Antes de conocerte, yo ya te __________ (ver) muchas veces. habíamos cenado ©2014 by Vista Higher Learning, Inc. All rights reserved.