escribir means: to write
In this lesson we are going to learn how to conjugate the verb escribir in the Condicional Perfecto tense of the Indicativo mood. It means we will see step by step how to create the following conjugation:
| yo | habría escrito | I would have written |
| tú | habrías escrito | you would have written |
| él/ella/usted | habría escrito | he/she/it would have written |
| nosotros/nosotras | habríamos escrito | we would have written |
| vosotros/vosotras | habríais escrito | you would have written |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes | habrían escrito | they would have written |
How to translate Condicional Perfecto to English
Notice that the phrases in English in the third column of the above conjugation chart are not direct translations from Spanish to English. They are usually 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.
- 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.
Step by step instructions
| Condicional 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 conjugated 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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| Check out 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 are focusing on the parts derived from escribir only in this lesson. This verb has an irregular Participle which needs to be memorized. It is escrito. |
In order to create the first person singular form, we need to take the first person singular form of haber conjugated in Condicional Simple de Indicativo, which is habría. To that we add the Participio escrito to get habría escrito:
Next, to create the form for the second person singular, we again need to take the second person singular form of haber from the Condicional Simple de Indicativo tense, and it is habrías. To this auxiliary verb we add the Participio escrito (so the exact same word as previously) to get habrías escrito:
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Similarly, if we want to create the form for the third person singular, we conjugate haber in the Condicional tense and we use the corresponding person’s form (third person singular), namely habría. Then we also take the same Participio as for all other persons, and putting them together we get habría escrito:
The first person plural has the form habríamos escrito. 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 Condicional Simple de Indicativo tense: habríamos. Second, to this word we again add the Participio of escribir: escrito to get habríamos escrito:
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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 Condicional Simple de Indicativo tense, second person plural, and it is habríais. Next, we take our unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get habríais escrito:
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form habrían escrito. 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 Condicional conjugation. It is habrían. We add the Participio of escribir again (escrito) to get habrían escrito:
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This is it! The conjugation is now complete. But don’t end your session yet – it is very important to repeat and practice the material in order to retain it. Check below for some links.
Next Steps
- To practice this conjugation and test yourself try this Conjugation Exercise or the Memory Game
- For exercises and examples related to escribir visit our Exercise section
- To see conjugation charts in all tenses for escribir visit the Conjugator
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