alcanzar means: to reach, to achieve, to catch up
In this lesson we are going to learn how to conjugate the verb alcanzar 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 alcanzado | tú | habrías alcanzado | él/ella/usted | habría alcanzado | nosotros/nosotras | habríamos alcanzado | vosotros/vosotras | habríais alcanzado | ellos/ellas/ustedes | habrían alcanzado |
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Step by step instructions
| Condicional Perfecto 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. 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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| Check out 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 alcanzar only here. 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 have to begin by splitting the infinitive into a stem and an ending. It’s very easy to do – simply remove two letters from the end of the infinitive and you have the ending – one of -ar, -er, -ir. What’s left is the stem. So in case of our verb:
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| Based on the ending of the infinitive we can tell that alcanzar 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: alcanzado. And now, as we understand how both parts used by this tense are created separately, let’s proceed with creating the final conjugation forms. |
In order to create the first person singular form, we simply take the first person singular form of haber conjugated in Condicional Simple de Indicativo, which is habría. And to that we add the Participio alcanzado to get habría alcanzado:
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. And to this auxiliary verb we add the Participio alcanzado (so the exact same word as previously) to get habrías alcanzado:
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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 alcanzado:
The first person plural has the form habríamos alcanzado. 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 alcanzar: alcanzado to get habríamos alcanzado:
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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 that’s habríais. Next, we take the unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get habríais alcanzado:
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form habrían alcanzado. 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 alcanzar again (alcanzado) to get habrían alcanzado:
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¡Ya está! The conjugation is now done. But don’t end your session yet – it is very important to repeat and practice the material in order to retain it. Check below for some links.
Next Steps
- To practice this conjugation and test your knowledge check this Conjugation Exercise or the Memory Game
- For exercises and examples related to alcanzar visit our Exercise section
- To see conjugation charts in all tenses for alcanzar visit the Conjugator
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