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Learn mostrar conjugation in Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto B

mostrar means: to show
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In this conjugation lesson we will learn how to inflect the verb mostrar in the Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto B 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 Pluscuamperfecto B 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 Pluscuamperfecto B 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 Pluscuamperfecto de Subjuntivo B tense, we use the Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo B (Imperfect Subjunctive B) 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 mostrar 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 – 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 in case of our verb:
  • the stem is: mostr-
  • and the ending is: -ar
Based on the ending of the infinitive we can tell that mostrar 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: mostrado.

Now, as we understand how both parts used by this tense are created separately, let’s 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 Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo B, which is hubiese. To that we add the Participio mostrado to get hubiese mostrado:
  • yo hubiese mostrado – I had shown/had showed
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 Subjuntivo B tense, and that is hubieses. To this auxiliary verb we add the Participio mostrado (so the exact same word as previously) to get hubieses mostrado:
  • tú hubieses mostrado – you had shown/had showed
Similarly, if we want to create the form for the third person singular, we conjugate haber in the Pretérito Imperfecto B tense and we use the corresponding person’s form (third person singular), namely hubiese. Then we also take the same Participio as for all other persons, and putting them together we get hubiese mostrado:
  • él hubiese mostrado – he had shown/had showed
  • ella hubiese mostrado – she had shown/had showed
  • usted hubiese mostrado – (formal) you had shown/had showed
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The first person plural has the form hubiésemos mostrado. 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 Subjuntivo B tense: hubiésemos. Second, to this word we again add the Participio of mostrar: mostrado to get hubiésemos mostrado:
  • nosotros hubiésemos mostrado – we had shown/had showed
  • nosotras hubiésemos mostrado – (feminine) we had shown/had showed
Again, let’s do the same for the second person plural. We have to get the conjugated form of the verb haber in the Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo B tense, second person plural, and that’s hubieseis. Next, we take the unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get hubieseis mostrado:
  • vosotros hubieseis mostrado – (plural) you had shown/had showed
  • vosotras hubieseis mostrado – (feminine, plural) you had shown/had showed
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form hubiesen mostrado. 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 Pretérito Imperfecto B conjugation. It is hubiesen. We add the Participio of mostrar again (mostrado) to get hubiesen mostrado:
  • ellos hubiesen mostrado – they had shown/had showed
  • ellas hubiesen mostrado – (feminine) they had shown/had showed
  • ustedes hubiesen mostrado – (formal, plural) you had shown/had showed

That’s it! The conjugation is now finished. Put together, the conjugation chart looks like this:

yohubiese mostradoI had shown/had showed
hubieses mostradoyou had shown/had showed
él/ella/ustedhubiese mostradohe/she/it had shown/had showed
nosotros/nosotrashubiésemos mostradowe had shown/had showed
vosotros/vosotrashubieseis mostradoyou had shown/had showed
ellos/ellas/ustedeshubiesen mostradothey had shown/had showed
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