| Practicing verb: desviar |
to divert | to alter the course of | to deflect | to detour | to forfend | to redirect
| verb | desviar |
| tense | Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto B |
| mood | Subjuntivo |
| yo | I had diverted |
| tú | you had diverted |
| él/ella/usted | he/she/it had diverted |
| nosotros/nosotras | we had diverted |
| vosotros/vosotras | you had diverted |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes | they had diverted |
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#1 Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto B 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 inflected 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:
- An inflected form of the auxiliary verb haber. In case of the Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto de Subjuntivo B tense, we use the Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo B (Imperfect Subjunctive B) conjugation of haber
- Past Participle, which is always the same in every compound tense for a given verb
#3 Refer to the conjugation charts 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 desviar only in this lesson.
#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 need to start by splitting the infinitive into a stem and an ending. It’s easy to do – simply remove two letters from the end of the infinitive to get the ending – one of -ar, -er, -ir. What’s left is the stem.
#5 So in case of the verb desviar it’s easy to see that:
- the stem is: desvi-
- and the ending is: -ar
#6 Based on the ending of the infinitive we can recognize that desviar 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: desviado.
And now, as we understand how both parts used by this tense are created separately, let’s proceed with creating the final conjugation forms.
And 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 Subjuntivo B, which is hubiese. To that we add the Participio desviado to get hubiese desviado:
- yo hubiese desviado
#8 Next, to create the form for the second person singular, we again simply take the second person singular form of haber from the Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo B tense, and that is hubieses. And to this auxiliary verb we add the Participio desviado (so the exact same word as previously) to get hubieses desviado:
- tú hubieses desviado
#9 Similarly, if we want to create the form for the third person singular, we conjugate haber in the Pretérito Imperfecto B tense and we use the corresponding person’s form (third person singular), namely hubiese. Then we also take the same Participio as for all other persons, and putting them together we get hubiese desviado:
- él hubiese desviado
- ella hubiese desviado
- usted hubiese desviado
#10 The first person plural has the form hubiésemos desviado. 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 Subjuntivo B tense: hubiésemos. Second, and to this word we again add the Participio of desviar: desviado to get hubiésemos desviado:
- nosotros hubiésemos desviado
- nosotras hubiésemos desviado
#11 Again, let’s do the same for the second person plural. We have to get the conjugated form of the verb haber in the Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo B tense, second person plural, and it’s hubieseis. Next, we take our unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get hubieseis desviado:
- vosotros hubieseis desviado
- vosotras hubieseis desviado
#12 And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form hubiesen desviado. 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 B conjugation. It is hubiesen. We add the Participio of desviar again (desviado) to get hubiesen desviado:
- ellos hubiesen desviado
- ellas hubiesen desviado
- ustedes hubiesen desviado
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In this exercise we practice conjugation of the verb desviar in the Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto B tense of the Subjuntivo mood.Type the appropriate form for each grammatical person into the input fields. Click Check to verify your answers. Click show next hint to get step by step instructions.
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