![]() Remember that the last example can be expressed with the non-systemic use of hacer: Hacía ocho días que estábamos en Ibiza. Likewise, quince días at times translates as “two weeks” rather than 15 days. ![]() (When days are counted, starting with, for example, Monday, it is counted as day one and day eight). Once you know it, all you need to do is add the past participle of the main verb you want to use, and bingo, you’re speaking in present perfect Spanish. * Be aware that ocho días often translates as “a week” in Spanish. In the above example, the past perfect tense communicates that the two past actions were not simultaneous, but rather that the cleaning of the house took place prior to the arriving at home.Īt times there is a specified past point of reference (instead of a conjugated verb in the past) other times this point of reference is unexpressed and simply understood: A los diecinueve años, Alfonso nunca había manejado un automóvil.Īt age 19 Alfonso had never driven a car. In Spain, the present perfect tense is generally more common, while the simple past is used more in many Latin American countries. When we came home, we saw that it had been cleaned. The past perfect tense (also called the pluperfect tense) in Spanish has the same meaning as in English and in both languages it is used to refer to the more distant in time of two past events: Cuando vinimos a casa, vimos que se había limpiado. ![]() It’s very important to understand the idea behind the perfect tense, which connects a past action to the present. Present Perfect Simple se usa para acciones que comenzaron en el pasado que aún están en curso o que han finalizado muy recientemente y no se sitúan en un marco temporal determinado. In Spanish the present perfect tense is used to describe an action, or repeated actions that started in the past and continues into the present. You have already seen one form of the imperfect tense of haber, había, which stands alone to mean “there was” or “there were.” The past perfect tense is as follows: The Spanish name of the present perfect subjunctive is el pretrito perfecto de subjuntivo. Just as the present tense of haber + past participle are used to form the present perfect tense, the imperfect tense of haber + past participle are used to form the past perfect tense. Again, when we use past participles as part of a perfect tense, in our case present perfect subjunctive, they are always masculine and singular. Unit 10: Structures with “hacer,” introduction to perfect tenses, translation considerations (part 1) ![]()
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