abrir means: to open, to turn on, to unlock, to unfold
In this lesson we will see how to conjugate the verb abrir in the Condicional Perfecto tense of the Indicativo mood. It means we will see step by step how to get the following conjugation:
yo | habría abierto | I would have opened | tú | habrías abierto | you would have opened | él/ella/usted | habría abierto | he/she/it would have opened | nosotros/nosotras | habríamos abierto | we would have opened | vosotros/vosotras | habríais abierto | you would have opened | ellos/ellas/ustedes | habrían abierto | they would have opened |
How to translate Condicional Perfecto to English
Notice that the phrases in English in the third column of the above conjugation chart are not direct translations from Spanish to English. They are the closest general equivalents. The example differences are:- In Spanish, there is the form usted in the third person singular. But this person does not translate to the English third person singular. It translates to the so called formal you and uses the inflected form which is most often represented as he/she/it in English conjugation charts.
- Similar situation happens in the third person plural, where ustedes translates to the English plural formal you but uses the form which corresponds to the they form in English.
- Tenses are used differently in Spanish and English, so the actual translation should always take into account the context and focus on translating the meaning, not just words.
Step by step instructions
Condicional Perfecto 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. In the compound tenses, every person’s form consist of two parts:
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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 abrir only here. This verb has an irregular Participle which needs to be remembered. It is abierto. |
In order to create the first person singular form, we need to take the first person singular form of haber conjugated in Condicional Simple de Indicativo, which is habría. And to that we add the Participio abierto to get habría abierto:
Next, to create the form for the second person singular, we again need to take the second person singular form of haber from the Condicional Simple de Indicativo tense, and it is habrías. To this auxiliary verb we add the Participio abierto (so the exact same word as previously) to get habrías abierto:
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Similarly, if we want to create the form for the third person singular, we conjugate haber in the Condicional tense and we use the corresponding person’s form (third person singular), namely habría. Then we also take the same Participio as for all other persons, and putting them together we get habría abierto:
The first person plural has the form habríamos abierto. 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 Condicional Simple de Indicativo tense: habríamos. Second, and to this word we again add the Participio of abrir: abierto to get habríamos abierto:
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Again, let’s do the same for the second person plural. We have to get the inflected form of the verb haber in the Condicional Simple de Indicativo tense, second person plural, and it is habríais. Next, we take our unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get habríais abierto:
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form habrían abierto. 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 Condicional conjugation. It is habrían. We add the Participio of abrir again (abierto) to get habrían abierto:
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That’s it! The conjugation is now done. But don’t end your session yet – it’s important to repeat and practice the material in order to retain it. Check below for next steps.
Next Steps
- To practice this conjugation and test your knowledge check this Conjugation Exercise or the Memory Game
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