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How to Use Spanish Tenses Flashcards

1
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Which tense is used for an event that is the in present, routine, and/or permanent?

A

Present Indicative

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Which tense is used for an event that is in the present and is continuing in a given moment?

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Present Participle

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Which tense is used for an event that started and ended in the past; occurred once?

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Past Simple Tense

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Which tense is used for an event that has happened in the past and continues into the present?

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Present Perfect

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5
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What two conjugations are required for the present perfect?

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Haber in Present Indicative and Past Participle

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Which tense is used for events in the future or to express one’s suppositions, opinions, or hypotheses on the future?

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Future Tense

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Which tense is used when the speaker demands, orders, requests, or suggests the listener to do something.

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Affirmative Imperatives

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Which tense is used to describe an event that used to happen regularly or is an ongoing or continuous event in the past?

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Past Imperfect Tense

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Which tense is used for an event that was expected to happen in the past or to express wishes and requests?

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Conditional Tense

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What two conjugations form the conditional perfect?

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Haber in Conditional and Past Participle

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Which tense is used to express possibility in the past?

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Conditional Perfect

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Which tense is used to expresses wishes, doubts, or uncertainties in the present or degrees of probability?

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Present Subjunctive

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Which tense is used to say “don’t do…” or “you can’t do…”?

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Negative Imperatives

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Which tense is used for an event that took place before a specific time in the past?

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Past Perfect

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What two conjugations form the past perfect?

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Haber in Past Imperfect and Past Participle

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Which tense is used for an event that will have been finished before a future time or before another action.

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Future Perfect

17
Q

What two conjugations form the future perfect?

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Haber in Simple Future Tense and Past Participle

18
Q

Which tense is used for when an event is very unlikely or unrealistic?

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Past Subjunctive

19
Q

Which tense is used to express whishes, doubts, regrets, or uncertainties about past things?

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Perfect Past Subjunctive

20
Q

What two conjugations form the perfect past subjunctive?

A

Haber in Past Subjunctive and Past Participle

21
Q

Which tense is used to express an event that was supposed to happen in the past, but we don’t know whether it happened or not, or how it went?

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Perfect Present Subjunctive

22
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What two conjugations form the perfect present subjunctive?

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Haber in Present Subjunctive and Past Particple

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