superar means: to beat, to exceed, to outdo, to outperform, to outplay, to outrange, to outstrip, to pass, to top
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In this Spanish conjugation lesson we are going to learn how to conjugate the verb superar 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

Note that the phrases in English 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 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 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

See 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 superar 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 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 to get the ending – one of -ar, -er, -ir. What’s left is the stem.So for our verb:

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

Based on the ending of the infinitive we can recognize that superar 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: superado.

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 Presente de Subjuntivo, which is haya. To that we add the Participio superado to get haya superado:

• yo haya superado – I have beaten/have beat

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 that is hayas. To this auxiliary verb we add the Participio superado (so the exact same word as previously) to get hayas superado:

• tú hayas superado – you have beaten/have beat

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 superado:

• él haya superado – he have beaten/have beat
• ella haya superado – she have beaten/have beat
• usted haya superado – (formal) you have beaten/have beat

The first person plural has the form hayamos superado. 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, to this word we again add the Participio of superar: superado to get hayamos superado:

• nosotros hayamos superado – we have beaten/have beat
• nosotras hayamos superado – (feminine) we have beaten/have beat

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 it’s hayáis. Next, we take the unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get hayáis superado:

• vosotros hayáis superado – (plural) you have beaten/have beat
• vosotras hayáis superado – (feminine, plural) you have beaten/have beat

And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form hayan superado. 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 superar again (superado) to get hayan superado:

• ellos hayan superado – they have beaten/have beat
• ellas hayan superado – (feminine) they have beaten/have beat
• ustedes hayan superado – (formal, plural) you have beaten/have beat

This is it! The conjugation is now complete. That’s the final result:

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

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