How Long For & Future Tense Flashcards
How Long For/Verbal Constructions, Immediate Future/Future & Conditional.
What are the 3 different present tense constructions which convey how long you’ve been doing something for or how long it is since you’ve done something?
Desde hace, hace que + llevar.
What is the construction for desde hace?
Present Action + Desde Hace + Time.
What is the construction for hace que?
Hace + Time + Que + Present Action.
What is the construction for llevar?
Present Llevar + Time + Gerund Action.
What are the 3 constructions for how you would ask someone how long they’ve been doing something?
¿Desde cuándo + present verb?
¿Cuánto tiempo hace que + present verb?
¿Cuánto tiempo + present llevar + gerund?
If you have been doing something for a period of time and are still doing it, what should you use?
Use the present tense with one of the 3 present tense constructions.
If you had been doing something and were still doing it at the point of reference, what are the 3 constructions you should use?
Imperfect Action + Desde Hacía + Time.
Hacía + Time + Que + Imperfect Action.
Imperfect Llevar + Time + Gerund Action
What are the 3 question constructions if they had been doing something and still were at the point of rneference?
¿Cuánto tiempo hacía que + imperfect tense?
¿Desde cuándo + imperfect tense?
¿Cuánto tiempo llevaba(s) + gerund?
What should you use when you wish to talk about something which happened for a period of time in the past which is now complete?
Durante (for)
Or por.
What should use when referring to time in the future?
Use para/por (for)
What should you use when saying ‘since’?
Desde
How might you say ago?
Hace + time span.
How might you form the immediate future tense?
Appropriate part of ir + a + infinitive.
Conjugate the verb:
ir
Voy, vas, va, vamos, vais, van.
What are the 2 future tenses? (Describing actions that are to take place in the future)
Ir + a + infinitive.
Future simple with infinitive + ending.
What are the endings for the simple future tense?
-é, -ás, -á, -emos, -éis, -án.
What are the uses of the simple future tense?
Indicate future events (near/far), indicate suppositions or approximations (usually involves numbers) e.g. Probably, about.
What are the irregular verbs + their stems in these tenses:
Conditional + future simple.
Caber (cabr), decir (dir), haber (habr), hacer (har), poder (podr), poner (pondr), querer (querr), saber (sabr), salir (saldr), tener (tendr), valer (valdr), venir (vendr).
What are the endings for the conditional tense?
-ía, -ías, -ía, -íamos, -íais, -ían.
When is the conditional tense used?
When we use the word ‘would’.
Indicate an implied condition, express suppositions or approximations in past (often with numbers), express future in past (especially reported speech), express rhetorical questions. Often replaced by imperfect (especially in colloquial language) or imperfect subjunctive -ra form (especially with querer, haber, deber) Also used with si.
In the conditional tense, when might you need querer in imperfect or preterite form?
When would or wouldn’t refers to someone’s willingness to do something.
What do you do when would means used to do something?
The imperfect or soler + infinitive.
If could can be replaced with was/used to, what must you do?
Use the imperfect form of poder.
How can you say, ‘if I were you, I would…’
Yo que tú, conditional + sentence.
