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In this Spanish conjugation lesson we will see how to inflect the verb preparar in the Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto 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 Pluscuamperfecto 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
Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto 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 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 Pluscuamperfecto de Indicativo tense, we use the Pretérito Imperfecto de Indicativo (Imperfect) 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, 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 Indicativo, which is había. To that we add the Participio preparado to get había preparado:
- yo había preparado – I had prepared
- tú habías preparado – you had prepared
- él había preparado – he had prepared
- ella había preparado – she had prepared
- usted había preparado – (formal) you had prepared
- nosotros habíamos preparado – we had prepared
- nosotras habíamos preparado – (feminine) we had prepared
- vosotros habíais preparado – (plural) you had prepared
- vosotras habíais preparado – (feminine, plural) you had prepared
- ellos habían preparado – they had prepared
- ellas habían preparado – (feminine) they had prepared
- ustedes habían preparado – (formal, plural) you had prepared
Hurray! The conjugation is now finished. That’s the final result:
yo | había preparado | I had prepared |
tú | habías preparado | you had prepared |
él/ella/usted | había preparado | he/she/it had prepared |
nosotros/nosotras | habíamos preparado | we had prepared |
vosotros/vosotras | habíais preparado | you had prepared |
ellos/ellas/ustedes | habían preparado | they had prepared |
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