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- How do you form the past perfect subjunctive in Spanish?
- What is past perfect subjunctive?
- What are examples of the past perfect subjunctive?
- How do you conjugate the present perfect subjunctive in Spanish?
How do you form the past perfect subjunctive in Spanish?
The past perfect subjunctive follows the structure haber in the imperfect subjunctive + past participle of the main verb (e.g. acabado, tenido, salido…/finished, had, left…). Me hubiera gustado mucho ir a tu fiesta. I would have loved to come to your party. Me hubiese gustado mucho ir a tu fiesta.
What is past perfect subjunctive?
What is it? In short, we use the past perfect subjunctive to talk about hypothetical situations in the past hypothetical situations, in the past si clauses, and to refer to past actions that happened before other past actions.
What are examples of the past perfect subjunctive?
I would've bought the dress if there hadn't been such a queue. (There was a long queue, so I didn't buy the dress.) She would rather I had gone to bed earlier. (I didn't go to bed early.)
How do you conjugate the present perfect subjunctive in Spanish?
The present perfect subjunctive requires a similar formula: Auxiliary verb “haber” (present subjunctive) + past participle of the action verb.
