jugar means: to play
In this lesson we will learn how to conjugate the verb jugar 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 jugado |
tú | hubieres jugado |
él/ella/usted | hubiere jugado |
nosotros/nosotras | hubiéremos jugado |
vosotros/vosotras | hubiereis jugado |
ellos/ellas/ustedes | hubieren jugado |
Step by step instructions
Futuro 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 inflected 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 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 jugar 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 have to begin by splitting the infinitive into a stem and an ending. It’s 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 in case of our verb:
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Based on the ending of the infinitive we can tell that jugar 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: jugado. 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 simply take the first person singular form of haber conjugated in Futuro de Subjuntivo, which is hubiere. To that we add the Participio jugado to get hubiere jugado:
Next, to create the form for the second person singular, we again need to take the second person singular form of haber from the Futuro de Subjuntivo tense, and that is hubieres. And to this auxiliary verb we add the Participio jugado (so the exact same word as previously) to get hubieres jugado:
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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 jugado:
The first person plural has the form hubiéremos jugado. 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 jugar: jugado to get hubiéremos jugado:
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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 Futuro de Subjuntivo tense, second person plural, and it is hubiereis. Next, we take our unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get hubiereis jugado:
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form hubieren jugado. 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 jugar again (jugado) to get hubieren jugado:
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That’s it! The conjugation is now finished. But don’t end your session yet – it’s important to repeat and practice the material in order to retain it. Check below for suggestions.
Next Steps
- To practice this conjugation and test your skills check this Conjugation Exercise or the Memory Game
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