| Practicing verb: considerar |
to consider
| verb | considerar |
| tense | Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto |
| mood | Indicativo |
| yo | tú | él/ella/usted | nosotros/nosotras | vosotros/vosotras | ellos/ellas/ustedes |
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#1 Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto is a compound tense (Spanish: compuesto). It means that all of its conjugated forms consist of two words. In Spanish language, there are also simple tenses, where each conjugated verb form is one word long.
In a compound tense the endings of the auxiliary verb change, not the endings of the main verb, which is the case in Spanish simple tenses.
In a compound tense the endings of the auxiliary verb change, not the endings of the main verb, which is the case in Spanish simple tenses.
#2 In the compound tenses, every person’s form consist of two parts:
- A conjugated form of the auxiliary verb haber. In case of the Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto de Indicativo tense, we use the Pretérito Imperfecto de Indicativo (Imperfect) conjugation of haber
- Past Participle, which is always the same in every compound tense for a given verb
#3 See the conjugation charts and this haber conjugation lesson to learn how to conjugate the auxiliary verb haber. That’s a separate topic, so for brevity we’ll focus on the parts derived from considerar only here.
#4 In order to create the Participio form, we need a stem and an ending. We use the stem of the infinitive of the main verb, and a single ending, which depends on the conjugation group of the main verb. So we begin by splitting the infinitive into a stem and an ending. It’s very easy to do – just remove two letters from the end of the infinitive form to get the ending – one of -ar, -er, -ir. What’s left is the stem.
#5 So in case of the verb considerar it’s easy to see that:
- the stem is: consider-
- and the ending is: -ar
#6 Based on the ending of the infinitive we can recognize that considerar belongs to the -ar verb group. This group, in turn, uses the -ado ending in its Participio form. Putting all that together, our Participio is: considerado.
Now, as we understand how both parts used by this tense are created separately, let’s proceed with creating the final conjugation forms.
Now, as we understand how both parts used by this tense are created separately, let’s proceed with creating the final conjugation forms.
#7 In order to create the first person singular form, we simply take the first person singular form of haber conjugated in Pretérito Imperfecto de Indicativo, which is había. To that we add the Participio considerado to get había considerado:
- yo había considerado
#8 Next, to create the form for the second person singular, we again need to take the second person singular form of haber from the Pretérito Imperfecto de Indicativo tense, and it is habías. And to this auxiliary verb we add the Participio considerado (so the exact same word as previously) to get habías considerado:
- tú habías considerado
#9 Similarly, if we want to create the form for the third person singular, we conjugate haber in the Pretérito Imperfecto tense and we utilize the corresponding person’s form (third person singular), namely había. Then we also take the same Participio as for all other persons, and putting them together we get había considerado:
- él había considerado
- ella había considerado
- usted había considerado
#10 The first person plural has the form habíamos considerado. It’s created by following the same logic as in the other persons. We first take the form of the first person plural from haber conjugation in the Pretérito Imperfecto de Indicativo tense: habíamos. Second, to this word we again add the Participio of considerar: considerado to get habíamos considerado:
- nosotros habíamos considerado
- nosotras habíamos considerado
#11 Again, let’s do the same for the second person plural. We have to get the inflected form of the verb haber in the Pretérito Imperfecto de Indicativo tense, second person plural, and that’s habíais. Next, we take our unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get habíais considerado:
- vosotros habíais considerado
- vosotras habíais considerado
#12 And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form habían considerado. We create it in the exact same manner as in all the other grammatical persons. We need the third person plural of haber first, from its Pretérito Imperfecto conjugation. It is habían. We add the Participio of considerar again (considerado) to get habían considerado:
- ellos habían considerado
- ellas habían considerado
- ustedes habían considerado
#13 Success! The conjugation is now complete!
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