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Learn gastar conjugation in Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto

gastar means: to spend, to use up, to wear out
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In this Spanish conjugation lesson we will see how to inflect the verb gastar in the Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto 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 Perfecto Compuesto to English

Note that the phrases in English 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 Perfecto Compuesto 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.

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:
  • A conjugated form of the auxiliary verb haber. In case of the Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto de Subjuntivo tense, we use the Presente de Subjuntivo (Present Subjunctive) conjugation of haber
  • Past Participle, which is always the same in every compound tense for a given verb
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 gastar 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 to get the ending – one of -ar, -er, -ir. What’s left is the stem.So for gastar:
  • the stem is: gast-
  • and the ending is: -ar
Based on the ending of the infinitive we can recognize that gastar 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: gastado.

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 need to take the first person singular form of haber conjugated in Presente de Subjuntivo, which is haya. And to that we add the Participio gastado to get haya gastado:
  • yo haya gastado – I have spent
Next, to create the form for the second person singular, we again simply take the second person singular form of haber from the Presente de Subjuntivo tense, and that is hayas. And to this auxiliary verb we add the Participio gastado (so the exact same word as previously) to get hayas gastado:
  • tú hayas gastado – you have spent
Similarly, if we want to create the form for the third person singular, we conjugate haber in the Presente tense and we utilize the corresponding person’s form (third person singular), namely haya. Then we also take the same Participio as for all other persons, and putting them together we get haya gastado:
  • él haya gastado – he have spent
  • ella haya gastado – she have spent
  • usted haya gastado – (formal) you have spent
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The first person plural has the form hayamos gastado. 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 Presente de Subjuntivo tense: hayamos. Second, and to this word we again add the Participio of gastar: gastado to get hayamos gastado:
  • nosotros hayamos gastado – we have spent
  • nosotras hayamos gastado – (feminine) we have spent
Again, let’s do the same for the second person plural. We have to get the conjugated form of the verb haber in the Presente de Subjuntivo tense, second person plural, and that’s hayáis. Next, we take our unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get hayáis gastado:
  • vosotros hayáis gastado – (plural) you have spent
  • vosotras hayáis gastado – (feminine, plural) you have spent
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form hayan gastado. 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 Presente conjugation. It is hayan. We add the Participio of gastar again (gastado) to get hayan gastado:
  • ellos hayan gastado – they have spent
  • ellas hayan gastado – (feminine) they have spent
  • ustedes hayan gastado – (formal, plural) you have spent

Hurray! The conjugation is now done. The final result looks as follows:

yohaya gastadoI have spent
hayas gastadoyou have spent
él/ella/ustedhaya gastadohe/she/it have spent
nosotros/nosotrashayamos gastadowe have spent
vosotros/vosotrashayáis gastadoyou have spent
ellos/ellas/ustedeshayan gastadothey have spent
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But do not end your session yet – it is very important to repeat and practice the material in order to remember it. Check below for and next steps.

Example sentences

Te arrepentirás cuando te lo hayas gastado todo.
You will regret when you have spent it all.

Next Steps to Perfection

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