viajar means: to travel
In this lesson we will see how to conjugate the verb viajar in the Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto tense of the Indicativo mood. It means we will see step by step how to get the following conjugation:
| yo | he viajado | tú | has viajado | él/ella/usted | ha viajado | nosotros/nosotras | hemos viajado | vosotros/vosotras | habéis viajado | ellos/ellas/ustedes | han viajado |
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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:
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| Refer to 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 are focusing on the parts derived from viajar 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 easy to do – just 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 viajar:
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| Based on the ending of the infinitive we can recognize that viajar 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: viajado. And now, as we understand how both parts used by this tense are created separately, let’s move on 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. To that we add the Participio viajado to get he viajado:
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 viajado (so the exact same word as previously) to get has viajado:
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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 viajado:
The first person plural has the form hemos viajado. 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 viajar: viajado to get hemos viajado:
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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 Indicativo tense, second person plural, and it is habéis. Next, we take the unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get habéis viajado:
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form han viajado. 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 viajar again (viajado) to get han viajado:
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¡Ya está! The conjugation is now finished. But don’t end your session yet – it’s important to repeat and practice the material in order to retain it. Check below for next steps.
Next Steps
- To practice this conjugation and test your skills check this Conjugation Exercise or the Memory Game
- For exercises and examples related to viajar visit our Exercise section
- To see conjugation charts in all tenses for viajar visit the Conjugator
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