reflexionar means: to cogitate, to consider, to mull over, to reflect, to think about
In this lesson we will see how to conjugate the verb reflexionar in the Condicional Perfecto tense of the Indicativo mood. It means we will see step by step how to get the following conjugation:
| yo | habría reflexionado | I would have cogitated |
| tú | habrías reflexionado | you would have cogitated |
| él/ella/usted | habría reflexionado | he/she/it would have cogitated |
| nosotros/nosotras | habríamos reflexionado | we would have cogitated |
| vosotros/vosotras | habríais reflexionado | you would have cogitated |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes | habrían reflexionado | they would have cogitated |
How to translate Condicional Perfecto to English
Note that the English phrases in the third column of the above conjugation table 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 inflected 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:
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| See 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 reflexionar 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 need to start by splitting the infinitive into a stem and an ending. It’s easy to do – simply remove two letters from the end of the infinitive and you have the ending – one of -ar, -er, -ir. What’s left is the stem. So for reflexionar:
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| Based on the ending of the infinitive we can recognize that reflexionar 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: reflexionado. And now, as we understand how both parts used by this tense are created separately, let’s 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 Condicional Simple de Indicativo, which is habría. And to that we add the Participio reflexionado to get habría reflexionado:
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. And to this auxiliary verb we add the Participio reflexionado (so the exact same word as previously) to get habrías reflexionado:
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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 reflexionado:
The first person plural has the form habríamos reflexionado. 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 reflexionar: reflexionado to get habríamos reflexionado:
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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 Condicional Simple de Indicativo tense, second person plural, and it is habríais. Next, we take the unchanged Participio, we join them, and we get habríais reflexionado:
And finally, the last grammatical person on the list, the third person plural, has the form habrían reflexionado. 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 reflexionar again (reflexionado) to get habrían reflexionado:
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This is it! 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 suggestions.
Next Steps
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