quitar means: to quench, to remove, to take off, to unstick
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In this Spanish conjugation lesson we will see how to conjugate the verb quitar in the Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto 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 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 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 Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto de Subjuntivo tense, we use the Presente de Subjuntivo (Present 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 quitar 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 begin by splitting the infinitive into a stem and an ending. It’s really easy to do – simply 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 in case of the verb quitar it’s easy to see that:

• the stem is: quit-
• and the ending is: -ar

Based on the ending of the infinitive we can tell that quitar belongs to the -ar verb group. This group, in turn, uses the -ado ending in its Participio form. Putting all that together, our Participio is: quitado.

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

• yo haya quitado – I have quenched

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 Subjuntivo tense, and it is hayas. And to this auxiliary verb we add the Participio quitado (so the exact same word as previously) to get hayas quitado:

• tú hayas quitado – you have quenched

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

• él haya quitado – he have quenched
• ella haya quitado – she have quenched
• usted haya quitado – (formal) you have quenched

The first person plural has the form hayamos quitado. 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 Subjuntivo tense: hayamos. Second, and to this word we again add the Participio of quitar: quitado to get hayamos quitado:

• nosotros hayamos quitado – we have quenched
• nosotras hayamos quitado – (feminine) we have quenched

Again, let’s do the same for the second person plural. We have to get the inflected form of the verb haber in the Presente de Subjuntivo tense, second person plural, and that’s hayáis. Next, we take the unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get hayáis quitado:

• vosotros hayáis quitado – (plural) you have quenched
• vosotras hayáis quitado – (feminine, plural) you have quenched

And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form hayan quitado. 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 hayan. We add the Participio of quitar again (quitado) to get hayan quitado:

• ellos hayan quitado – they have quenched
• ellas hayan quitado – (feminine) they have quenched
• ustedes hayan quitado – (formal, plural) you have quenched

This is it! The conjugation is now finished. Put together, the conjugation chart looks like this:

yo	haya quitado	I have quenched
tú	hayas quitado	you have quenched
él/ella/usted	haya quitado	he/she/it have quenched
nosotros/nosotras	hayamos quitado	we have quenched
vosotros/vosotras	hayáis quitado	you have quenched
ellos/ellas/ustedes	hayan quitado	they have quenched

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