quitar means: to quench, to remove, to take off, to unstick
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In this conjugation lesson we will learn how to conjugate the verb quitar in the Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto A 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 Pluscuamperfecto A 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 A is a compound tense (Spanish: compuesto). It means that all of its conjugated 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 Subjuntivo A tense, we use the Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo A (Imperfect Subjunctive A) 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 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 need to start 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 to get the ending – one of -ar, -er, -ir. What’s left is the stem.So for quitar:

• 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.

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 Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo A, which is hubiera. And to that we add the Participio quitado to get hubiera quitado:

• yo hubiera quitado – I had quenched

Next, to create the form for the second person singular, we again simply take the second person singular form of haber from the Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo A tense, and that is hubieras. To this auxiliary verb we add the Participio quitado (so the exact same word as previously) to get hubieras quitado:

• tú hubieras quitado – you had quenched

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

• él hubiera quitado – he had quenched
• ella hubiera quitado – she had quenched
• usted hubiera quitado – (formal) you had quenched

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

• nosotros hubiéramos quitado – we had quenched
• nosotras hubiéramos quitado – (feminine) we had 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 Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo A tense, second person plural, and that’s hubierais. Next, we take our unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get hubierais quitado:

• vosotros hubierais quitado – (plural) you had quenched
• vosotras hubierais quitado – (feminine, plural) you had quenched

And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form hubieran 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 Pretérito Imperfecto A conjugation. It is hubieran. We add the Participio of quitar again (quitado) to get hubieran quitado:

• ellos hubieran quitado – they had quenched
• ellas hubieran quitado – (feminine) they had quenched
• ustedes hubieran quitado – (formal, plural) you had quenched

That’s it! The conjugation is now complete. The final result looks as follows:

yo	hubiera quitado	I had quenched
tú	hubieras quitado	you had quenched
él/ella/usted	hubiera quitado	he/she/it had quenched
nosotros/nosotras	hubiéramos quitado	we had quenched
vosotros/vosotras	hubierais quitado	you had quenched
ellos/ellas/ustedes	hubieran quitado	they had quenched

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