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In this Spanish conjugation lesson we are going to learn how to inflect the verb preparar 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 inflected 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 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: prepar-
- and the ending is: -ar
And 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 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 preparado to get he preparado:
- yo he preparado – I have prepared
- tú has preparado – you have prepared
- él ha preparado – he has prepared
- ella ha preparado – she has prepared
- usted ha preparado – (formal) you have prepared
- nosotros hemos preparado – we have prepared
- nosotras hemos preparado – (feminine) we have prepared
- vosotros habéis preparado – (plural) you have prepared
- vosotras habéis preparado – (feminine, plural) you have prepared
- ellos han preparado – they have prepared
- ellas han preparado – (feminine) they have prepared
- ustedes han preparado – (formal, plural) you have prepared
¡Ya está! The conjugation is now finished. Put together, the conjugation chart looks like this:
yo | he preparado | I have prepared |
tú | has preparado | you have prepared |
él/ella/usted | ha preparado | he/she/it has prepared |
nosotros/nosotras | hemos preparado | we have prepared |
vosotros/vosotras | habéis preparado | you have prepared |
ellos/ellas/ustedes | han preparado | they have prepared |
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