Spanish Tenses

Question 1

Indicative Mood

Answer 1

To express assertions, facts, and objections.
Haber+main verb
AR-ando
ER-ido
IR-ido

Question 2

Present Tense (Indicative Mood)

Answer 2

Used to talk about things that happen in general or about habits.

Question 3

Preterite Tense (Indicative Mood)

Answer 3

To speak about things in the past that happened once. Definite end.

Question 4

Imperfect Tense (Indicative Mood)

Answer 4

To talk about things that happened in the past that do not have a definite end.

Question 5

Future Tense (Indicative Mood)

Answer 5

To talk about things that will happen in the future.

Question 6

Conditional Tense (Indicative Mood)

Answer 6

Used to talk about hypothetical natures in the past, present, and future. Think “would+verb” construction in English. “I would love- yo amaría.”

Question 7

Present Perfect (Indicative Mood)

Answer 7

Haber+past participle verb.
Used to talk about events that started in the past and have continued to the present and may continue in the future.
Events that occurred at a non-specific time in the past.
Events that took place in the recent past.
Think “have/has(haber)+past participle”

Question 8

Preterite Perfect (Past Anterior) (Indicative Mood)

Answer 8

Used to talk about an action in the past that took place before another action.
Minimal usage. Limited to formal language and literary works.
Think “had(haber)+past participle”

Question 9

Past Perfect (Indicative Mood)

Answer 9

Used to explain that had happened before something else happened.
The reason preterite perfect is not commonly used anymore
“Had(haber)+past participle”

Question 10

Conditional Perfect (Indicative Mood)

Answer 10

Used to talk about suppositions in the past (suppose you would have…), complete or finished request, invitations, suggestions, or future actions from a past perspective (I would have been doing…)
“Would have(haber)+past participle

Question 11

Future Perfect (Indicative Mood)

Answer 11

Used to inform that an action will happen before a specific time or event in the future. it must specify a reference point (time or event)
“We will have arrived in two hours”
“When you arrive, the food will be gone”
“When she is five Janice will have learned another language”
“Will have(haber)+past participle”

Question 12

Subjunctive Mood

Answer 12

Used to talk about things that are not part of reality, such as wishes and desires.

Question 13

Present Subjunctive

Answer 13

Used to express uncertainty and doubt
Verb endings flip
AR-e
ER-a
IR-a

Question 14

Imperfect 1 of 2 Subjunctive

Answer 14

Used to express point of view in the past
AR-ara
ER-iera
IR-iera

Question 15

Imperfect 2 of 2 Subjunctive

Answer 15

Used to express view point in the past but both imperfects can be used interchangeably.
AR-ase
ER-iese
IR-iese

Question 16

Future Subjunctive

Answer 16

Almost obsolete. Used in formal language when a verb in present or future requires the subjunctive in the main clause and refers to a future action.