interrumpir means: to barge into, to break in, to butt in, to cut in, to cut off, to cut short, to hold up, to interpose, to interrupt, to punctuate, to suspend, to terminate
In this lesson we will learn how to conjugate the verb interrumpir in the Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto tense of the Subjuntivo mood. It means we will see step by step how to create the following conjugation:
| yo | haya interrumpido |
| tú | hayas interrumpido |
| él/ella/usted | haya interrumpido |
| nosotros/nosotras | hayamos interrumpido |
| vosotros/vosotras | hayáis interrumpido |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes | hayan interrumpido |
Step by step instructions
| Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto 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 inflected 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 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 interrumpir 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 need to begin 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 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 recognize that interrumpir 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: interrumpido. 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 Presente de Subjuntivo, which is haya. To that we add the Participio interrumpido to get haya interrumpido:
Next, to create the form for the second person singular, we again need to take the second person singular form of haber from the Presente de Subjuntivo tense, and it is hayas. To this auxiliary verb we add the Participio interrumpido (so the exact same word as previously) to get hayas interrumpido:
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Similarly, if we want to create the form for the third person singular, we conjugate haber in the Presente tense and we use 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 interrumpido:
The first person plural has the form hayamos interrumpido. 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, to this word we again add the Participio of interrumpir: interrumpido to get hayamos interrumpido:
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Again, let’s do the same for the second person plural. We have to get the inflected form of the verb haber in the Presente de Subjuntivo tense, second person plural, and it’s hayáis. Next, we take the unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get hayáis interrumpido:
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form hayan interrumpido. 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 interrumpir again (interrumpido) to get hayan interrumpido:
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Hurray! 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 your skills try this Conjugation Exercise or the Memory Game
- For exercises and examples related to interrumpir visit our Exercise section
- To see conjugation charts in all tenses for interrumpir visit the Conjugator
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