Spanish Conjugations: Compound Tenses

Front 1

Use it to describe what someone wanted to have happened.

Back 1

Past perfect subjunctive (Pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo): hubiera + past participle

Hint 1

Also, to tell what someone would--or would not--have done.

Front 2

Use it to express an action you would have done if something else had been possible.

Back 2

Conditional perfect: habría + past participle

Hint 2

Usually the non-"If" clause of a statement

Front 3

Used to indicate the action as completed with governing verbs in the present or future tense or command forms.

Back 3

Present perfect subjunctive: haya + past participle

Hint 3

"I have spoken"

Front 4

Expresses an action that took place at no definite time in the past.

Back 4

Present perfect (indicative): he + past participle

Hint 4

"I have left."

Front 5

Used to tell what had or had not happened before another past action.

Back 5

Past perfect (indicative): había + past participle

Hint 5

Used in relation to another past action (often expressed in the preterit).