promover means: to bring, to develop, to further, to pioneer, to promote, to provoke
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In this Spanish conjugation lesson we will learn how to conjugate the verb promover 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

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 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

Check out 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’re focusing on the parts derived from promover 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 have 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 and you have the ending – one of -ar, -er, -ir. What’s left is the stem.So in case of the verb promover it’s easy to see that:

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

Based on the ending of the infinitive we can tell that promover 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: promovido.

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 simply take the first person singular form of haber conjugated in Presente de Indicativo, which is he. And to that we add the Participio promovido to get he promovido:

• yo he promovido – I have brought

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

• tú has promovido – you have brought

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

• él ha promovido – he has brought
• ella ha promovido – she has brought
• usted ha promovido – (formal) you have brought

The first person plural has the form hemos promovido. 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 Presente de Indicativo tense: hemos. Second, to this word we again add the Participio of promover: promovido to get hemos promovido:

• nosotros hemos promovido – we have brought
• nosotras hemos promovido – (feminine) we have brought

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

• vosotros habéis promovido – (plural) you have brought
• vosotras habéis promovido – (feminine, plural) you have brought

And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form han promovido. 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 Presente conjugation. It is han. We add the Participio of promover again (promovido) to get han promovido:

• ellos han promovido – they have brought
• ellas han promovido – (feminine) they have brought
• ustedes han promovido – (formal, plural) you have brought

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

yo	he promovido	I have brought
tú	has promovido	you have brought
él/ella/usted	ha promovido	he/she/it has brought
nosotros/nosotras	hemos promovido	we have brought
vosotros/vosotras	habéis promovido	you have brought
ellos/ellas/ustedes	han promovido	they have brought

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