The Perfect Tenses By Jami Sipe

I have walked. Paul and Joan have bought a new car. We have spoken. The Present Perfect The present perfect tense in English looks like this:

In Spanish … The perfect tenses consist of a form of the auxiliary verb haber (to have) + the past participle of the main verb.

he has ha hemos habéis han haber First, you are going to need the present tense of the auxiliary verb haber. Present Perfect haber In Spanish, we use the present tense of haber plus the past participle form of the main verb.

What about a past participle? The regular past participle is formed by dropping the infinitive ending and adding –ado to –ar verbs and –ido to –er and –ir verbs: ado hablado = ido bebido = ido sufrido = spoken drunk suffered

abrir – abierto cubrir – cubierto decir – dicho escribir – escrito hacer – hecho morir – muerto poner – puesto romper – roto ver – visto volver – vuelto Some Irregular Past Participles:

describir – descubrir – revolver – Check it out! You can see some of the verbs you already know in these compound verbs. descrito descubierto revuelto

yo he ganado tú has ganado usted, él, ella ha ganado nosotros/as hemos ganado vosotros/as habéis ganado ustedes, ellos, ellas han ganado Present Perfect of the Verb ganar Here’s what it looks like:

I had walked. Paul and Joan had bought a new car. We had spoken. Past Perfect Tense past The past perfect tense in English looks like this:

Past Perfect In Spanish, we use the imperfect tense of haber plus the past participle form of the main verb. había habías había habíamos habíais habían haber First, you are going to need the imperfect tense of the auxiliary verb haber.

yo había ganado tú habías ganado usted, él, ella había ganado nosotros/as habíamos ganado vosotros/as habíais ganado ustedes, ellos, ellas habían ganado Past Perfect of the Verb ganar Here’s what it looks like:

Ejemplos: ¿Lo has pagado? = (Have you paid it?) ¿La has recibido? = (Have you received it?) Object Pronouns In perfect tenses, object pronouns go before the conjugated form of haber and are not attached to the past participle.

yo he escrito ellos/ellas han hablado ella había escuchado habíamos visto ¿Lo/La has escrito? I have written they have spoken she had listened we had seen Have you written it? Check Your Knowledge!

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