parecer means: to seem, to look like
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In this Spanish conjugation lesson we will see how to conjugate the verb parecer in the Condicional Perfecto 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 Condicional Perfecto to English

Notice 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

Condicional Perfecto 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 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:

• A conjugated form of the auxiliary verb haber. In case of the Condicional Perfecto de Indicativo tense, we use the Condicional Simple de Indicativo (Conditional) 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 parecer 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 start 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 and you have the ending – one of -ar, -er, -ir. What’s left is the stem.So for parecer:

• the stem is: parec-
• and the ending is: -er

Based on the ending of the infinitive we can tell that parecer belongs to the -er verb group. This group, in turn, uses the -ido ending in its Participio form. Putting all that together, our Participio is: parecido.

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 Condicional Simple de Indicativo, which is habría. To that we add the Participio parecido to get habría parecido:

• yo habría parecido – I would have seemed

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

• tú habrías parecido – you would have seemed

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

• él habría parecido – he would have seemed
• ella habría parecido – she would have seemed
• usted habría parecido – (formal) you would have seemed

The first person plural has the form habríamos parecido. 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 Condicional Simple de Indicativo tense: habríamos. Second, to this word we again add the Participio of parecer: parecido to get habríamos parecido:

• nosotros habríamos parecido – we would have seemed
• nosotras habríamos parecido – (feminine) we would have seemed

Again, let’s do the same for the second person plural. We need to get the conjugated form of the verb haber in the Condicional Simple de Indicativo tense, second person plural, and it’s habríais. Next, we take our unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get habríais parecido:

• vosotros habríais parecido – (plural) you would have seemed
• vosotras habríais parecido – (feminine, plural) you would have seemed

And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form habrían parecido. 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 Condicional conjugation. It is habrían. We add the Participio of parecer again (parecido) to get habrían parecido:

• ellos habrían parecido – they would have seemed
• ellas habrían parecido – (feminine) they would have seemed
• ustedes habrían parecido – (formal, plural) you would have seemed

That’s it! The conjugation is now complete. That’s the final result:

yo	habría parecido	I would have seemed
tú	habrías parecido	you would have seemed
él/ella/usted	habría parecido	he/she/it would have seemed
nosotros/nosotras	habríamos parecido	we would have seemed
vosotros/vosotras	habríais parecido	you would have seemed
ellos/ellas/ustedes	habrían parecido	they would have seemed

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