lograr means: to achieve, to get, to obtain, to attain
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In this Spanish conjugation lesson we will see how to inflect the verb lograr in the Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto tense of the Indicativo mood. It means we will see step by step how to create and translate forms of each grammatical person.

How to translate Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto 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.

Step by step instructions

Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto 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.

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:

• An inflected form of the auxiliary verb haber. In case of the Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto de Indicativo tense, we use the Pretérito Imperfecto de Indicativo (Imperfect) conjugation of haber
• Past Participle, which is always the same in every compound tense for a given verb

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 will focus on the parts derived from lograr 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 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 lograr:

• the stem is: logr-
• and the ending is: -ar

Based on the ending of the infinitive we can recognize that lograr 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: logrado.

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 simply take the first person singular form of haber conjugated in Pretérito Imperfecto de Indicativo, which is había. And to that we add the Participio logrado to get había logrado:

• yo había logrado – I had achieved

Next, to create the form for the second person singular, we again need to take the second person singular form of haber from the Pretérito Imperfecto de Indicativo tense, and that is habías. To this auxiliary verb we add the Participio logrado (so the exact same word as previously) to get habías logrado:

• tú habías logrado – you had achieved

Similarly, if we want to create the form for the third person singular, we conjugate haber in the Imperfecto tense and we utilize the corresponding person’s form (third person singular), namely había. Then we also take the same Participio as for all other persons, and putting them together we get había logrado:

• él había logrado – he had achieved
• ella había logrado – she had achieved
• usted había logrado – (formal) you had achieved

The first person plural has the form habíamos logrado. 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 Pretérito Imperfecto de Indicativo tense: habíamos. Second, and to this word we again add the Participio of lograr: logrado to get habíamos logrado:

• nosotros habíamos logrado – we had achieved
• nosotras habíamos logrado – (feminine) we had achieved

Again, let’s do the same for the second person plural. We need to get the inflected form of the verb haber in the Pretérito Imperfecto de Indicativo tense, second person plural, and it’s habíais. Next, we take the unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get habíais logrado:

• vosotros habíais logrado – (plural) you had achieved
• vosotras habíais logrado – (feminine, plural) you had achieved

And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form habían logrado. 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 Imperfecto conjugation. It is habían. We add the Participio of lograr again (logrado) to get habían logrado:

• ellos habían logrado – they had achieved
• ellas habían logrado – (feminine) they had achieved
• ustedes habían logrado – (formal, plural) you had achieved

¡Ya está! The conjugation is now done. That’s the final result:

yo	había logrado	I had achieved
tú	habías logrado	you had achieved
él/ella/usted	había logrado	he/she/it had achieved
nosotros/nosotras	habíamos logrado	we had achieved
vosotros/vosotras	habíais logrado	you had achieved
ellos/ellas/ustedes	habían logrado	they had achieved

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