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Learn tratar conjugation in Condicional Perfecto step by step with detailed explanations

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tratar means: to try, to treat

In this lesson we will learn how to conjugate the verb tratar in the Condicional Perfecto tense of the Indicativo mood. It means we will see step by step how to get the following conjugation:

yohabría tratadoI would have tryed
habrías tratadoyou would have tryed
él/ella/ustedhabría tratadohe/she/it would have tryed
nosotros/nosotrashabríamos tratadowe would have tryed
vosotros/vosotrashabríais tratadoyou would have tryed
ellos/ellas/ustedeshabrían tratadothey would have tryed

How to translate Condicional Perfecto to English

Notice that the English phrases in the third column of the above conjugation chart are not direct translations from Spanish to English. They are usually the closest general equivalents. The example differences are:
  • In Spanish, 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

Condicional 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.

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:
  • An inflected form of the auxiliary verb haber. In case of the Condicional Perfecto de Indicativo tense, we use the Condicional Simple de Indicativo (Conditional) conjugation of haber
  • Past Participle, which is always the same in every compound tense for a given verb
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Image of trat arCheck 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 will focus on the parts derived from tratar 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 start by splitting the infinitive into a stem and an ending. It’s very 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 for our verb:
  • the stem is: trat-
  • and the ending is: -ar
Based on the ending of the infinitive we can tell that tratar 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: tratado.

And now, as we understand how both parts used by this tense are created separately, we can proceed with creating the final conjugation forms.
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Image of Conjugate haber in Condicional ...In order to create the first person singular form, we need to take the first person singular form of haber conjugated in Condicional Simple de Indicativo, which is habría. To that we add the Participio tratado to get habría tratado:
  • yo habría tratado


Next, to create the form for the second person singular, we again simply take the second person singular form of haber from the Condicional Simple de Indicativo tense, and it is habrías. To this auxiliary verb we add the Participio tratado (so the exact same word as previously) to get habrías tratado:
  • tú habrías tratado
Similarly, if we want to create the form for the third person singular, we conjugate haber in the Condicional tense and we utilize the corresponding person’s form (third person singular), namely habría. Then we also take the same Participio as for all other persons, and putting them together we get habría tratado:
  • él habría tratado
  • ella habría tratado
  • usted habría tratado


The first person plural has the form habríamos tratado. 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 Condicional Simple de Indicativo tense: habríamos. Second, and to this word we again add the Participio of tratar: tratado to get habríamos tratado:
  • nosotros habríamos tratado
  • nosotras habríamos tratado
Image of ... create a common Participle ...
Image of ... join them into a compound formAgain, let’s do the same for the second person plural. We need to get the conjugated form of the verb haber in the Condicional Simple de Indicativo tense, second person plural, and it’s habríais. Next, we take our unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get habríais tratado:
  • vosotros habríais tratado
  • vosotras habríais tratado


And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form habrían tratado. 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 Condicional conjugation. It is habrían. We add the Participio of tratar again (tratado) to get habrían tratado:
  • ellos habrían tratado
  • ellas habrían tratado
  • ustedes habrían tratado

Hurray! The conjugation is now finished. 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 suggestions.

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