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Learn carecer conjugation in Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto B

carecer means: to be short of, to lack
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In this Spanish conjugation lesson we will learn how to conjugate the verb carecer in the Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto B 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 B to English

Note that the English phrases 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 B 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:
  • A conjugated form of the auxiliary verb haber. In case of the Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto de Subjuntivo B tense, we use the Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo B (Imperfect Subjunctive B) conjugation of haber
  • Past Participle, which is always the same in every compound tense for a given verb
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 carecer 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 – just 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:
  • the stem is: carec-
  • and the ending is: -er
Based on the ending of the infinitive we can tell 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.

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 Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo B, which is hubiese. To that we add the Participio carecido to get hubiese carecido:
  • yo hubiese 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 B tense, and that is hubieses. And to this auxiliary verb we add the Participio carecido (so the exact same word as previously) to get hubieses carecido:
  • tú hubieses 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 B tense and we use the corresponding person’s form (third person singular), namely hubiese. Then we also take the same Participio as for all other persons, and putting them together we get hubiese carecido:
  • él hubiese carecido – he had been short of
  • ella hubiese carecido – she had been short of
  • usted hubiese carecido – (formal) you had been short of
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The first person plural has the form hubiésemos 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 B tense: hubiésemos. Second, to this word we again add the Participio of carecer: carecido to get hubiésemos carecido:
  • nosotros hubiésemos carecido – we had been short of
  • nosotras hubiésemos carecido – (feminine) we had been short of
Again, let’s do the same for the second person plural. We need to get the conjugated form of the verb haber in the Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo B tense, second person plural, and it’s hubieseis. Next, we take the unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get hubieseis carecido:
  • vosotros hubieseis carecido – (plural) you had been short of
  • vosotras hubieseis carecido – (feminine, plural) you had been short of
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form hubiesen 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 B conjugation. It is hubiesen. We add the Participio of carecer again (carecido) to get hubiesen carecido:
  • ellos hubiesen carecido – they had been short of
  • ellas hubiesen carecido – (feminine) they had been short of
  • ustedes hubiesen carecido – (formal, plural) you had been short of

¡Ya está! The conjugation is now complete. That’s the final result:

yohubiese carecidoI had been short of
hubieses carecidoyou had been short of
él/ella/ustedhubiese carecidohe/she/it had been short of
nosotros/nosotrashubiésemos carecidowe had been short of
vosotros/vosotrashubieseis carecidoyou had been short of
ellos/ellas/ustedeshubiesen carecidothey had been short of
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