Tense Usage

Front 1

Presente Progressivo del Indicativo

Back 1

Action occurring right now.

Front 2

Present Perfect Indicative

Back 2

Action completed before the moment of speech.
Action begun in the past and continuing at present (with an adverb of time)

Front 3

Imperfecto del Indicativo

Back 3

Non-specific past action
Continuous past action
Habitual past action
Background of past action
Never identifies when or for how long
Past expressions of feeling or emotion
Past expressions of time and age
Past progressive

Front 4

Pasado Progressivo del Indicativo

Back 4

Imperfect
Estar in Imperfect + Pres participle

Front 5

Futuro del Indicativo

Back 5

Action occurs after moment of speech
Expresses a command
Expresses probability with verbs of state (ser / estar )

Front 6

Preterito del indicativo

Back 6

Specific completed past action
Action a past process understood as an event
At a certain time
At a certain number of times
During an enclosed timeframe
Narrates specific past events

Front 7

Preterito perfecto del indicativo

Back 7

Action occurs before a specific moment of past time
Introduced by an expression of time

Front 8

Futuro perfecto

Back 8

Process will be completed before a future point in time
Expresses a completed supposition
Process culminating at the present (emotional)

Front 9

Futuro hypotetico (Conditional)

Back 9

Action would occur but for an unmet condition (express or implied)
Describes a process occurring after a point on past time
Describes a process which depends on a condition
Expresses a possibility at a point of past time
Expresses polite request with gustar and poder

Front 10

Pasado perfecto del indicativo

Back 10

Action completed before a point in past time (express or implied)