Present Perfect
What is the Spanish name for this grammar structure?
What is: el pretérito perfecto compuesto
What is the Spanish name of the past perfect grammar structure?
What is: pluscuamperfecto de indicativo
Which tense might be combined in a sentence with preterite
What is the past perfect/ pluscuamperfecto
What are regular Ar preterite verb conjugations
é
aste
ó
amos
aron
When is present perfect used?
What is: describes an action that happened in the past and continues or repeats into the present or an action that happened in the recent past.
When is past perfect used?
What is: expresses an action that happened in the past before another past action. The past perfect describes what a person "had done" before something else happened in the past. .
Present or past perfect?
Why?
Conjugation
Yo ya _______________________ salido cuando llamaste a mi puerta.
había bc The past perfect describes what a person "had done" before something else happened in the past.
What are regular er/ir preterite conjugations
What is
í
iste
ió
imos
ieron
What is the English equivalent
What is: The present perfect describes what a person "has done".
What is the English equivalent of the past perfect
What is: "had done"
Which tense?
Why?
Conjugation
Mis hermanos _______________________ (correr) un maratón (marathon).
Present perfect
Bc-the present perfect describes an action that happened in the past and continues or repeats into the present or an action that happened in the recent past. The present perfect describes what a person "has done".
han corrido
What are the irregular past participles?
Are they used with both present perfect and past or only one?
They are used with both
abrir (to open) – abierto (open)
cubrir (to cover) – cubierto (covered)
decir (to say) – dicho (said)
escribir (to write) – escrito (written)
freír (to fry) – frito (fried)
hacer (to do) – hecho (done)
morir (to die) – muerto (dead)
poner (to put) – puesto (put)
resolver (to resolve) – resuelto (resolved)
romper (to break) – roto (broken)
ver (to see) – visto (seen)
volver (to return) – vuelto (returned)
How do you conjugate the verb haber in the present perfect?
What is:
he
has
ha
hemos
habéis
han
How do you conjugate the auxiliary verb for the past perfect
What is
había
habías
había
habíamos
habíais
habían
Which tense?
Why?
Conjugation
Tú _______________________ (lastimarse) tres veces esta semana.
The present perfect describes an action that happened in the past and continues or repeats into the present or an action that happened in the recent past. The present perfect describes what a person "has done".
Tú _______________________ (lastimarse) tres veces esta semana.
Tú te has lastimado (lastimarse) tres veces esta semana.
Present or past ? Why? Conjugate
Carlos, ¿ _______________________ (tomarse) ya tus vitaminas?
Ya te has tomado tus vitaminas
Present perfect - recent past action
Conjugate
Mi padre ya ________________ (hacer) gimnasia.
mi padre ya ha hecho gimnasia
Conjugate
Cuando / (nosotros) / llegar / ya / (tú) / salir
Cuando llegamos, ya habías salido
Which tense?
Why?
Conjugation
Ustedes ya _______________________ vivido en California antes de mudarse a Texas.
Past perfect
antes de and the past perfect expresses an action that happened in the past before another past action. The past perfect describes what a person "had done" before something else happened in the past.
habían
Which tense?
Why?
Conjugation
5. Cuando llegué, tú ya _______________________ dormirse
past perfect
something that already had been happening when something specific in the preterite occured
tu ya te habías dormido