Understanding Spanish and the Pluperfect Tense

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For the most part cadeiras egg, the Pluperfect Tense is employed expressing a fact or action that occurred before still another past action took place.

The Pluperfect Tense

In this Spanish lesson distribuidora de combustiveis, we shall understand the Pluperfect Tense. Whether you are learning Spanish on-line, with CDs, or Learning Spanish application, you'll find this session useful in your journey to learn how to speak Spanish.

For the absolute most part, the Pluperfect Tense can be used to state a fact or action that happened before place was taken by another past action.

In English, this is often stated in these manner:

I had thought of you when you called.

Although in English we tend to use the preterite to express two consecutive steps in the past, in Spanish that is rarely the case. As an alternative, the Pluperfect Tense is employed.

In Spanish, the above mentioned sentence is interpreted to:

Hey haba pensado durante usted cuando llam.

Notice how a auxiliary verb haber (to have) is just a prominent element of this tense, both in Spanish and in English. The primary verb parallels the past participle.

Let us have a closer go through the conjugation for the Pluperfect Tense for -ar, -er, and -ir verbs in Spanish.

Trabajar (to work)

Hey haba trabajado (I had worked) nosotros habamos trabajado (we had worked)

t habas trabajado (you'd worked) ellos haban trabajado (they had worked)

l haba trabajado (he had worked) ellas haban trabajado (they'd worked)

ella haba trabajado (she'd worked) ustedes haban trabajado (you'd worked)

usted haba trabajado (you had worked)

Notice the way the conjugation with this tense is easily formed by adding -a to hab--the auxiliary verb haber's stem. The past participle for the principal verb is then added to complete the conjugation.

This conjugation format is repeated for -er and -ir verbs as well.

Comer (to consume)

yo haba comido (I had eaten) nosotros habamos comido (we'd eaten)

t habas comido (you'd eaten) ellos haban comido (they'd eaten)

l haba comido (he had eaten) ellas haban comido (they'd eaten)

ella haba comido (she had eaten) ustedes haban comido (you had eaten)

usted haba comido (you had enjoyed)

Salir (to go out)

Hey haba salido (I'd gone out) nosotros habamos salido (we'd gone out)

t habas salido (you had gone out) ellos haban salido (they'd gone out)

M haba salido (he'd gone out) ellas haban salido (they had gone out)

ella haba salido (she'd gone out) ustedes haban salido (you had gone out)

usted haba salido (you'd gone out)

What follows really are a few types of the PluPerfect Tense in Spanish:

Yo haba salido cuando el telfono son.

(I'd gone out if the telephone rang.)

Juan y yo ya habamos cenado cuando Sra. Patricia nos ofreci comida.

(We'd already had supper when Mrs. Patricia offered us food.)

Mauricio haba hablado disadvantage su pap cuando lleg su mam.

(Mauricio had spoken to his father when his mother arrived.)

Roberto b Julio haban bebido ralph antes de llegar a manhattan project fiesta.

(Roberto and Julio had drank rum before they arrived at the party.)

Josefina no haba dormido mucho antes de entrarse durante el avin.

a lot hadn't been slept by Josefina before she joined the airplane.)

Now lets here is another few exercises. Read these into Spanish. The exercise is followed by the answers.

1. the house had been cleaned by Clara when her friends came.

2. I'd used my Spanish before I was called by Juan.

3. We had eaten an excessive amount of, when the dessert arrived.

4. Paco and Enrique had finished the test once the bell rang.

5. You had changed your dollars to pesos before the bank closed.

6. They had gone to the beach before it rained.

7. Marisol and I had eaten breakfast before we went to school.

8. We'd learned how to dance salsa before we moved to Puerto Rico.

9. I'd met Diego before he got here.

10. Humberto wrote to Carmen when he received her letter.

1. Clara haba limpiado la casa cuando llegaron sus amigas.

2. Yo haba practicado mi Espaol antes p Juan llamarme.

3. Habamos comido demasiado cuando lleg el postre.

4. Paco y Enrique haban terminado el examen cuando boy manhattan project campana.

5. T habas cambiado tus dlares a antes de cerrar el banco.

6. Ellos haban ido a manhattan project playa antes p llover.

7. Marisol b yo habamos desayunado antes de ir a manhunter escuela.

8. Habamos aprendido como bailar manhunter salsa antes de viajar a Puerto Rico.

9. Yo haba conocido a antes de venir l aqu.

10. Humberto le haba escrito a cuando recibi su carta.

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