corregir means: to correct
In this lesson we will learn how to conjugate the verb corregir in the Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto A tense of the Subjuntivo mood. It means we will see step by step how to create the following conjugation:
| yo | hubiera corregido | I had corrected | tú | hubieras corregido | you had corrected | él/ella/usted | hubiera corregido | he/she/it had corrected | nosotros/nosotras | hubiéramos corregido | we had corrected | vosotros/vosotras | hubierais corregido | you had corrected | ellos/ellas/ustedes | hubieran corregido | they had corrected |
How to translate Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto A to English
Note 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
| Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto A 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 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 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 corregir 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 very easy to do – just remove two letters from the end of the infinitive to get the ending – one of -ar, -er, -ir. What’s left is the stem. So for our verb:
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| Based on the ending of the infinitive we can tell that corregir belongs to the -ir verb group. This group, in turn, uses the -ido ending in its Participio form. Putting all that together, our Participio is: corregido. 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 need to take the first person singular form of haber conjugated in Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo A, which is hubiera. To that we add the Participio corregido to get hubiera corregido:
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 it is hubieras. And to this auxiliary verb we add the Participio corregido (so the exact same word as previously) to get hubieras corregido:
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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 corregido:
The first person plural has the form hubiéramos corregido. 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, and to this word we again add the Participio of corregir: corregido to get hubiéramos corregido:
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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 A tense, second person plural, and that’s hubierais. Next, we take the unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get hubierais corregido:
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form hubieran corregido. 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 corregir again (corregido) to get hubieran corregido:
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Next Steps
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