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Spanish Past Tenses - Past PerfectThere are several Spanish past tenses. In this lesson we'll cover the past perfect.Basically, the past perfect is used when you want to say that an event occurred prior to another past event. Alittle confusing? If you want to say you went to the store (past event), but it had already closed (prior event). In English the past perfect is always constructed using the verb have in the had form, and adding the past participle after the verb. I went to the the store after it had closed. Spanish isn't too different. We've already covered the Spanish past participle. Now you just need to know how to conjugate the verb haber (to have). We'll be conjugating as follows.... había habías había habíamos habíeis habían So how about some examples? How would you say, The store (el mercado) had closed (cerrado)? El mercado había cerrado. How would you say, We had arrived (llegado)? Nosotros habíamos llegado. Just remember the conjugated form of haber + past participle = past perfect. Ready to see what you know? Try the past perfect mini-quiz. Return from Spanish Past Tenses to the Spanish Grammar Menu. Return to the Learn Spanish Home Page.
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