atender means: to advert, to attend, to care, to cater to, to handle, to hark, to harken, to heed, to listen, to man, to nurse, to pay attention, to respond, to serve, to tend, to watch out for
In this lesson we will learn how to conjugate the verb atender in the Futuro Perfecto tense of the Indicativo mood. It means we will see step by step how to create the following conjugation:
yo | habré atendido | tú | habrás atendido | él/ella/usted | habrá atendido | nosotros/nosotras | habremos atendido | vosotros/vosotras | habréis atendido | ellos/ellas/ustedes | habrán atendido |
The objective of this series is to show as much as possible the logic behind spelling corrections and exceptions. That way the amount of stuff which needs to be memorized will be minimal and the learning process will be more effective. It means learning faster and with less effort.
Step by step instructions
Futuro 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 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 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’re focusing on the parts derived from atender 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 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 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 atender 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: atendido. 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. |
In order to create the first person singular form, we need to take the first person singular form of haber conjugated in Futuro Imperfecto de Indicativo, which is habré. To that we add the Participio atendido to get habré atendido:
Next, to create the form for the second person singular, we again need to take the second person singular form of haber from the Futuro Imperfecto de Indicativo tense, and it is habrás. And to this auxiliary verb we add the Participio atendido (so the exact same word as previously) to get habrás atendido:
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Similarly, if we want to create the form for the third person singular, we conjugate haber in the Futuro tense and we use the corresponding person’s form (third person singular), namely habrá. Then we also take the same Participio as for all other persons, and putting them together we get habrá atendido:
The first person plural has the form habremos atendido. 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 Futuro Imperfecto de Indicativo tense: habremos. Second, and to this word we again add the Participio of atender: atendido to get habremos atendido:
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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 Futuro Imperfecto de Indicativo tense, second person plural, and it is habréis. Next, we take the unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get habréis atendido:
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form habrán atendido. 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 Futuro conjugation. It is habrán. We add the Participio of atender again (atendido) to get habrán atendido:
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This is it! The conjugation is now finished. But don’t end your session yet – it’s important to repeat and practice the material in order to remember it. Check below for next steps.
Next Steps
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