fundir means: to blow, to melt, to melt down, to merge, to smelt, to unite, to yield
In this lesson we will learn how to conjugate the verb fundir in the Condicional Perfecto tense of the Indicativo mood. It means we will see step by step how to get the following conjugation:
| yo | habría fundido | I would have blown |
| tú | habrías fundido | you would have blown |
| él/ella/usted | habría fundido | he/she/it would have blown |
| nosotros/nosotras | habríamos fundido | we would have blown |
| vosotros/vosotras | habríais fundido | you would have blown |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes | habrían fundido | they would have blown |
How to translate Condicional Perfecto to English
Note that the English phrases in the third column of the above conjugation table 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 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 and this haber conjugation lesson to learn how to conjugate the auxiliary verb haber. That’s a separate topic, so for brevity we’re focusing on the parts derived from fundir 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 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 fundir:
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| Based on the ending of the infinitive we can recognize that fundir 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: fundido. And now, as we understand how both parts used by this tense are created separately, we can 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 Condicional Simple de Indicativo, which is habría. And to that we add the Participio fundido to get habría fundido:
Next, to create the form for the second person singular, we again simply take the second person singular form of haber from the Condicional Simple de Indicativo tense, and it is habrías. And to this auxiliary verb we add the Participio fundido (so the exact same word as previously) to get habrías fundido:
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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 fundido:
The first person plural has the form habríamos fundido. 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, and to this word we again add the Participio of fundir: fundido to get habríamos fundido:
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Again, let’s do the same for the second person plural. We have to get the conjugated form of the verb haber in the Condicional Simple de Indicativo tense, second person plural, and that’s habríais. Next, we take the unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get habríais fundido:
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form habrían fundido. 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 fundir again (fundido) to get habrían fundido:
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¡Ya está! The conjugation is now done. 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 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 fundir visit our Exercise section
- To see conjugation charts in all tenses for fundir visit the Conjugator
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