enseñar means: to teach
In this lesson we will learn how to conjugate the verb enseñar in the Futuro Perfecto tense of the Subjuntivo mood. It means we will see step by step how to get the following conjugation:
| yo | hubiere enseñado | tú | hubieres enseñado | él/ella/usted | hubiere enseñado | nosotros/nosotras | hubiéremos enseñado | vosotros/vosotras | hubiereis enseñado | ellos/ellas/ustedes | hubieren enseñado |
The objective of this series is to explain as much as possible the logic behind exceptions, spelling corrections and special cases. That way the amount of stuff which needs to be learned by heart will be minimized 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 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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| Refer to 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 enseñar 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 have to start by splitting the infinitive into a stem and an ending. It’s really easy to do – simply 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 enseñar:
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| Based on the ending of the infinitive we can tell that enseñar 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: enseñado. 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 simply take the first person singular form of haber conjugated in Futuro de Subjuntivo, which is hubiere. To that we add the Participio enseñado to get hubiere enseñado:
Next, to create the form for the second person singular, we again simply take the second person singular form of haber from the Futuro de Subjuntivo tense, and it is hubieres. And to this auxiliary verb we add the Participio enseñado (so the exact same word as previously) to get hubieres enseñado:
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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 hubiere. Then we also take the same Participio as for all other persons, and putting them together we get hubiere enseñado:
The first person plural has the form hubiéremos enseñado. 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 de Subjuntivo tense: hubiéremos. Second, to this word we again add the Participio of enseñar: enseñado to get hubiéremos enseñado:
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Again, let’s do the same for the second person plural. We need to get the inflected form of the verb haber in the Futuro de Subjuntivo tense, second person plural, and it’s hubiereis. Next, we take our unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get hubiereis enseñado:
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form hubieren enseñado. 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 hubieren. We add the Participio of enseñar again (enseñado) to get hubieren enseñado:
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That’s it! The conjugation is now complete. 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
- To practice this conjugation and test yourself check this Conjugation Exercise or the Memory Game
- For exercises and examples related to enseñar visit our Exercise section
- To see conjugation charts in all tenses for enseñar visit the Conjugator
- To explore other learning materials visit the Study section
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