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haber conjugation exercise in Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto

to have (auxiliary verb)
verbhaber
tensePretérito Pluscuamperfecto
moodIndicativo
yo
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 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.
#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 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 are focusing on the parts derived from haber 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 need to start by splitting the infinitive into a stem and an ending. It’s really 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 for our verb:
  • the stem is: hab-
  • and the ending is: -er
#6 Based on the ending of the infinitive we can recognize that haber belongs to the -er verb group. This group, in turn, uses the -ido ending in its Participio form. Putting all that together, our Participio is: habido.

And now, as we understand how both parts used by this tense are created separately, we can 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. And to that we add the Participio habido to get había habido:
  • yo había habido
#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 Indicativo tense, and that is habías. And to this auxiliary verb we add the Participio habido (so the exact same word as previously) to get habías habido:
  • tú habías habido
#9 Similarly, if we want to create the form for the third person singular, we conjugate haber in the Pretérito Imperfecto tense and we use 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 habido:
  • él había habido
  • ella había habido
  • usted había habido
#10 The first person plural has the form habíamos habido. 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 haber: habido to get habíamos habido:
  • nosotros habíamos habido
  • nosotras habíamos habido
#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 Indicativo tense, second person plural, and it’s habíais. Next, we take our unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get habíais habido:
  • vosotros habíais habido
  • vosotras habíais habido
#12 And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form habían habido. 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 haber again (habido) to get habían habido:
  • ellos habían habido
  • ellas habían habido
  • ustedes habían habido
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In this exercise we practice conjugation of the verb haber in the Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto tense of the Indicativo mood.

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to have (auxiliary verb)

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