Present Perfect
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.
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 querer querido venir venido *When 2 vowels do the walking, the “i”s do the talking leer leído oir oído
Complete the below practice on past participles… http://www.learnspanishfeelgood.com/verbs-participles-regular2.html
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
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 romper roto freir frito decir dicho hacer hecho
Complete the below practice using irregular past participles… http://www.learnspanishfeelgood.com/verbs-participles-irregular1.html
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 habéis hablado ha hablado han hablado Use these verb forms with all your past participles: he comido, has querido, ha vuelto, hemos trabajado, etc.
Complete the below practice on the present perfect tense http://studyspanish.com/grammar/test/presperfect