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In this Spanish conjugation lesson we will see how to inflect the verb matar in the Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto 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 Perfecto Compuesto to English
Note that the English phrases 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 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.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 Perfecto Compuesto de Indicativo tense, we use the Presente de Indicativo (Present) conjugation of haber
- Past Participle, which is always the same in every compound tense for a given verb
- the stem is: mat-
- and the ending is: -ar
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 need to take the first person singular form of haber conjugated in Presente de Indicativo, which is he. And to that we add the Participio matado to get he matado:
- yo he matado – I have killed
- tú has matado – you have killed
- él ha matado – he has killed
- ella ha matado – she has killed
- usted ha matado – (formal) you have killed
- nosotros hemos matado – we have killed
- nosotras hemos matado – (feminine) we have killed
- vosotros habéis matado – (plural) you have killed
- vosotras habéis matado – (feminine, plural) you have killed
- ellos han matado – they have killed
- ellas han matado – (feminine) they have killed
- ustedes han matado – (formal, plural) you have killed
That’s it! The conjugation is now finished. Put together, the conjugation chart looks like this:
yo | he matado | I have killed |
tú | has matado | you have killed |
él/ella/usted | ha matado | he/she/it has killed |
nosotros/nosotras | hemos matado | we have killed |
vosotros/vosotras | habéis matado | you have killed |
ellos/ellas/ustedes | han matado | they have killed |
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