pretender means: to pretend, to try to
In this lesson we will see how to conjugate the verb pretender in the Futuro Perfecto tense of the Subjuntivo mood. It means we will see step by step how to create the following conjugation:
| yo | hubiere pretendido |
| tú | hubieres pretendido |
| él/ella/usted | hubiere pretendido |
| nosotros/nosotras | hubiéremos pretendido |
| vosotros/vosotras | hubiereis pretendido |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes | hubieren pretendido |
Step by step instructions
| Futuro Perfecto 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:
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| Check out the conjugation charts to learn how to conjugate the auxiliary verb haber. That’s a separate topic, so for brevity we are focusing on the parts derived from pretender 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 really easy to do – just remove two letters from the end of the infinitive form to get the ending – one of -ar, -er, -ir. What’s left is the stem. So for pretender:
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| Based on the ending of the infinitive we can tell that pretender 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: pretendido. Now, as we understand how both parts used by this tense are created separately, we can 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 Futuro de Subjuntivo, which is hubiere. And to that we add the Participio pretendido to get hubiere pretendido:
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 that is hubieres. To this auxiliary verb we add the Participio pretendido (so the exact same word as previously) to get hubieres pretendido:
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Similarly, if we want to create the form for the third person singular, we conjugate haber in the Futuro tense and we utilize 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 pretendido:
The first person plural has the form hubiéremos pretendido. 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, to this word we again add the Participio of pretender: pretendido to get hubiéremos pretendido:
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Again, let’s do the same for the second person plural. We have to get the conjugated form of the verb haber in the Futuro de Subjuntivo tense, second person plural, and that’s hubiereis. Next, we take the unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get hubiereis pretendido:
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form hubieren pretendido. 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 pretender again (pretendido) to get hubieren pretendido:
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Hurray! The conjugation is now complete. But don’t end your session yet – it is very important to repeat and practice the material in order to retain it. Check below for some links.
Next Steps
- To practice this conjugation and test your knowledge try this Conjugation Exercise or the Memory Game
- For exercises and examples related to pretender visit our Exercise section
- To see conjugation charts in all tenses for pretender visit the Conjugator
- To explore other learning materials visit the Study section
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