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Learn parecer conjugation in Futuro Perfecto

parecer means: to seem, to look like
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In this Spanish conjugation lesson we are going to learn how to conjugate the verb parecer in the Futuro Perfecto 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 Futuro Perfecto to English

Notice 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

Futuro 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 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:
  • A conjugated form of the auxiliary verb haber. In case of the Futuro Perfecto de Subjuntivo tense, we use the Futuro de Subjuntivo (Future Subjunctive) conjugation of haber
  • Past Participle, which is always the same in every compound tense for a given verb
Check out the conjugation charts to learn how to conjugate the auxiliary verb haber. That’s a separate topic, so for brevity we’re focusing on the parts derived from parecer 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 need to 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 to get the ending – one of -ar, -er, -ir. What’s left is the stem.So for our verb:
  • 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 need to take the first person singular form of haber conjugated in Futuro de Subjuntivo, which is hubiere. And to that we add the Participio parecido to get hubiere parecido:
  • yo hubiere parecido – I will have seemed
Next, to create the form for the second person singular, we again simply take the second person singular form of haber from the Futuro de Subjuntivo tense, and it is hubieres. And to this auxiliary verb we add the Participio parecido (so the exact same word as previously) to get hubieres parecido:
  • tú hubieres parecido – you will have seemed
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 parecido:
  • él hubiere parecido – he will have seemed
  • ella hubiere parecido – she will have seemed
  • usted hubiere parecido – (formal) you will have seemed
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The first person plural has the form hubiéremos 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 Futuro de Subjuntivo tense: hubiéremos. Second, and to this word we again add the Participio of parecer: parecido to get hubiéremos parecido:
  • nosotros hubiéremos parecido – we will have seemed
  • nosotras hubiéremos parecido – (feminine) we will have seemed
Again, let’s do the same for the second person plural. We have to get the inflected form of the verb haber in the Futuro de Subjuntivo tense, second person plural, and it’s hubiereis. Next, we take our unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get hubiereis parecido:
  • vosotros hubiereis parecido – (plural) you will have seemed
  • vosotras hubiereis parecido – (feminine, plural) you will have seemed
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form hubieren 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 Futuro conjugation. It is hubieren. We add the Participio of parecer again (parecido) to get hubieren parecido:
  • ellos hubieren parecido – they will have seemed
  • ellas hubieren parecido – (feminine) they will have seemed
  • ustedes hubieren parecido – (formal, plural) you will have seemed

Hurray! The conjugation is now finished. That’s the final result:

yohubiere parecidoI will have seemed
hubieres parecidoyou will have seemed
él/ella/ustedhubiere parecidohe/she/it will have seemed
nosotros/nosotrashubiéremos parecidowe will have seemed
vosotros/vosotrashubiereis parecidoyou will have seemed
ellos/ellas/ustedeshubieren parecidothey will have seemed
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