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For probably the most part, the Pluperfect Tense is employed to express a fact or action that occurred before still another past action took place.

The Pluperfect Tense

In this Spanish session, we will learn the Pluperfect Tense. Whether you are learning Spanish on-line, with CDs, or Learning Spanish software, you will find this lesson helpful in your quest to learn how exactly to speak Spanish.

For probably the most part, the Pluperfect Tense is employed expressing a reality or action that happened before yet another past action happened.

In English, this is expressed in the next manner:

I had looked at you when you called.

Though in English we have a tendency to use the preterite expressing two successive actions in the past, in Spanish this is rarely the case. Rather, the Pluperfect Tense is used.

In Spanish, the aforementioned sentence is translated to:

Hey haba pensado en usted cuando llam.

Notice how a auxiliary verb haber (to possess) is a prominent section of this anxious, both in Spanish and in English. The key verb parallels the past participle.

Let's take a closer consider the conjugation for the Pluperfect Tense for -ar, -er, and -ir verbs in Spanish.

Trabajar (to work)

Hey haba trabajado (I'd worked) nosotros habamos trabajado (we'd worked)

t habas trabajado (you had worked) ellos haban trabajado (they had worked)

l haba trabajado (he'd worked) ellas haban trabajado (they had worked)

ella haba trabajado (she had worked) ustedes haban trabajado (you'd worked)

usted haba trabajado (you'd worked)

Notice how a conjugation because of this tense is easily formed with the addition of -a to hab--the auxiliary verb haber's stem. The past participle for the main verb is then included with complete the conjugation.

That conjugation format is repeated for -er and -ir verbs as well.

Comer (to consume)

yo haba comido (I had eaten) nosotros habamos comido (we'd eaten)

t habas comido (you'd eaten) ellos haban comido (they'd eaten)

l haba comido (he'd eaten) ellas haban comido (they'd eaten)

ella haba comido (she'd eaten) ustedes haban comido (you'd eaten)

usted haba comido (you had eaten)

Salir (to get out)

yo haba salido (I'd gone out) nosotros habamos salido (we had gone out)

t habas salido (you had gone out) ellos haban salido (they'd gone out)

M haba salido (he'd gone out) ellas haban salido (they had gone out)

ella haba salido (she had gone out) ustedes haban salido (you had gone out)

usted haba salido (you had gone out)

Below really are a few types of the PluPerfect Tense in Spanish: empilhadeiras

Telfono son is eled by yo haba salido cuando.

(I had gone out if the telephone rang.)

Juan y yo ya habamos cenado cuando Sra. Patricia nos ofreci comida.

(We had already had supper when Mrs. Patricia offered us food.)

Mauricio haba hablado fraud su smear cuando lleg su mam.

(Mauricio had spoken to his father when his mother arrived.)

Roberto b Julio haban bebido ron antes de llegar a la fiesta.

(Roberto and Julio had drank rum before they reached the party.)

Josefina number haba dormido mucho antes de entrarse durante el avin.

a lot hadn't been slept by Josefina before she joined the airplane.)

Now lets here is another few exercises. Translate these in to Spanish. The exercise is followed by the answers.

1. Clara had cleaned your house when her friends came.

2. I had practiced my Spanish before I was called by Juan.

3. when the dessert arrived, We had eaten a lot of.

4. Paco and Enrique had completed the test when the bell rang.

5. You'd altered your dollars to pesos ahead of the bank closed.

6. They'd gone to the beach before it rained.

7. Marisol and I'd eaten breakfast before we went along to college.

8. We'd learned before we traveled to Puerto Rico how exactly to dance salsa.

9. I'd met Diego before he got here.

10. Humberto wrote to Carmen when he received her letter.

1. Clara haba limpiado manhunter casa cuando llegaron sus amigas.

2. Yo haba practicado mi Espaol antes de Juan llamarme.

3. Habamos comido demasiado cuando lleg el postre.

4. Paco b Enrique haban terminado el examen cuando son la campana.

5. T habas cambiado tus dlares a antes de cerrar el banco.

6. Ellos haban ido a la playa antes delaware llover.

7. Marisol b hey habamos desayunado antes de ir a manhunter escuela.

8. Habamos aprendido como bailar manhattan project salsa antes de viajar a Puerto Rico.

9. Yo haba conocido a antes de venir l aqu.

10. Humberto le haba escrito a cuando recibi su carta.