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Learn carecer conjugation in Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto A

carecer means: to be short of, to lack
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In this conjugation lesson we will learn how to inflect the verb carecer in the Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto A tense of the Subjuntivo mood. It means we will see step by step how to create and translate forms of each grammatical person.

How to translate Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto A to English

Notice that the phrases in English provided below next to each conjugation are not direct translations from Spanish to English. They are usually the closest general equivalents. The example differences are:
  • In Spanish conjugation, 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.
  • In both languages each verb may have multiple meanings and not every meaning translates directly to the other language. Here also, the context and focusing on the particular meaning helps to create the most accurate translation.

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Step by step instructions

Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto A 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.

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:
  • An inflected form of the auxiliary verb haber. In case of the Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto de Subjuntivo A tense, we use the Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo A (Imperfect Subjunctive A) conjugation of haber
  • Past Participle, which is always the same in every compound tense for a given verb
Refer to the conjugation charts 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 carecer only in this lesson.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 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 form and you have the ending – one of -ar, -er, -ir. What’s left is the stem.So for carecer:
  • the stem is: carec-
  • and the ending is: -er
Based on the ending of the infinitive we can recognize that carecer 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: carecido.

And now, as we understand how both parts used by this tense are created separately, we can 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 Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo A, which is hubiera. And to that we add the Participio carecido to get hubiera carecido:
  • yo hubiera carecido – I had been short of
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 Subjuntivo A tense, and that is hubieras. And to this auxiliary verb we add the Participio carecido (so the exact same word as previously) to get hubieras carecido:
  • tú hubieras carecido – you had been short of
Similarly, if we want to create the form for the third person singular, we conjugate haber in the Pretérito Imperfecto A tense and we use the corresponding person’s form (third person singular), namely hubiera. Then we also take the same Participio as for all other persons, and putting them together we get hubiera carecido:
  • él hubiera carecido – he had been short of
  • ella hubiera carecido – she had been short of
  • usted hubiera carecido – (formal) you had been short of
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The first person plural has the form hubiéramos carecido. 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 Subjuntivo A tense: hubiéramos. Second, to this word we again add the Participio of carecer: carecido to get hubiéramos carecido:
  • nosotros hubiéramos carecido – we had been short of
  • nosotras hubiéramos carecido – (feminine) we had been short of
Again, let’s do the same for the second person plural. We need to get the inflected form of the verb haber in the Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo A tense, second person plural, and that’s hubierais. Next, we take the unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get hubierais carecido:
  • vosotros hubierais carecido – (plural) you had been short of
  • vosotras hubierais carecido – (feminine, plural) you had been short of
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form hubieran carecido. 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 A conjugation. It is hubieran. We add the Participio of carecer again (carecido) to get hubieran carecido:
  • ellos hubieran carecido – they had been short of
  • ellas hubieran carecido – (feminine) they had been short of
  • ustedes hubieran carecido – (formal, plural) you had been short of

This is it! The conjugation is now complete. Put together, the conjugation chart looks like this:

yohubiera carecidoI had been short of
hubieras carecidoyou had been short of
él/ella/ustedhubiera carecidohe/she/it had been short of
nosotros/nosotrashubiéramos carecidowe had been short of
vosotros/vosotrashubierais carecidoyou had been short of
ellos/ellas/ustedeshubieran carecidothey had been short of
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