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preferir conjugation exercise in Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto

to prefer
verbpreferir
tensePretérito Perfecto Compuesto
moodSubjuntivo
yo I have prefered
you have prefered
él/ella/usted he/she/it have prefered
nosotros/nosotras we have prefered
vosotros/vosotras you have prefered
ellos/ellas/ustedes they have prefered
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#1 Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto is a compound tense (Spanish: compuesto). It means that all of its inflected forms consist of two words. In Spanish language, there are also simple tenses, where each conjugated verb form is one word long.

A compound tense is indicated by the ending of the auxiliary verb, not by the ending 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 Perfecto Compuesto de Subjuntivo tense, we use the Presente de Subjuntivo (Present Subjunctive) conjugation of haber
  • Past Participle, which is always the same in every compound tense for a given verb
#3 Check out 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 preferir 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 begin 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 our verb:
  • the stem is: prefer-
  • and the ending is: -ir
#6 Based on the ending of the infinitive we can recognize that preferir belongs to the -ir verb group. This group, in turn, uses the -ido ending in its Participio form. Putting all that together, our Participio is: preferido.

And now, as we understand how both parts used by this tense are created separately, let’s move on with creating the final conjugation forms.
#7 In order to create the first person singular form, we need to take the first person singular form of haber conjugated in Presente de Subjuntivo, which is haya. And to that we add the Participio preferido to get haya preferido:
  • yo haya preferido
#8 Next, to create the form for the second person singular, we again simply take the second person singular form of haber from the Presente de Subjuntivo tense, and it is hayas. To this auxiliary verb we add the Participio preferido (so the exact same word as previously) to get hayas preferido:
  • tú hayas preferido
#9 Similarly, if we want to create the form for the third person singular, we conjugate haber in the Presente tense and we utilize the corresponding person’s form (third person singular), namely haya. Then we also take the same Participio as for all other persons, and putting them together we get haya preferido:
  • él haya preferido
  • ella haya preferido
  • usted haya preferido
#10 The first person plural has the form hayamos preferido. 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 Presente de Subjuntivo tense: hayamos. Second, to this word we again add the Participio of preferir: preferido to get hayamos preferido:
  • nosotros hayamos preferido
  • nosotras hayamos preferido
#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 Presente de Subjuntivo tense, second person plural, and that’s hayáis. Next, we take our unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get hayáis preferido:
  • vosotros hayáis preferido
  • vosotras hayáis preferido
#12 And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form hayan preferido. 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 Presente conjugation. It is hayan. We add the Participio of preferir again (preferido) to get hayan preferido:
  • ellos hayan preferido
  • ellas hayan preferido
  • ustedes hayan preferido
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In this exercise we practice conjugation of the verb preferir in the Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto tense of the Subjuntivo mood.

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Verb translation:

to prefer

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