Seven Compound Tenses

Question 1

Pluperfect or past perfect indicative

Eng: had + past participle

Answer 1

Expressed an action that happened before another past action.

Habia, habias, habia, habiamos, habiais, habian + past participle

Question 2

Past anterior or Preterit perfect

Answer 2

Used mostly in writing, translated similarly to the past perfect. Used after conjunctions of time: despues, que, cuando, apenas, luego que, en cuanto

Hube, hubiste, hubo, hubimos, hubisteis, hubieron + past participle

Question 3

Future perfect or future anterior

Eng: will + have + past participle

Answer 3

Expresses an action that will happen before another future action.

Habre, habras, habra, habremos, habreis, habran + past participle

Question 4

Conditional perfect

Eng: would have + past participle

Answer 4

Expresses what you would have done if something else were possible.

Habria, habrias, habria, habriamos, habriais, habrian + past participle

Question 5

Present perfect or past subjunctive

Answer 5

Used when an action is not yet past or the verb in the main clause is present indicative, future, or present perfect.

Haya, hayas, haya, hayamos, hayais, hayan + past participle

Question 6

Past perfect subjunctive or pluperfect tense

Answer 6

Used in the dependent clause of a sentence if the main clause is written in the past tense. Translated similarly to the pluperfect indicative

Question 7

Conjugating the pluperfect or past perfect subjunctive

Answer 7

Hubiera, hubieras, hubiera,hubieramos, hubierais, hubieran

Hubiese, hubieses, hubiese, hubiesemos, hubieseis, hubiesen

+ past participle

Question 8

Present perfect indicative

Eng: have or has + past participle

Answer 8

An action that took place at no specific time in the past.

He, has,ha, hemos, habeis, han + past participle of the verb