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Spanish Pluperfect: Forming the Past-Before-Past

Learn to form the Spanish pluperfect tense, or 'pretérito pluscuamperfecto', to talk about actions that had happened before another past event.

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Lesson#1
To talk about an action that happened before another point in the past, Spanish uses a tense called the pluperfect, or 'pretérito pluscuamperfecto'. It's the equivalent of saying 'I had done something' in English. For example, 'I had already eaten when you arrived'.
Lesson#2
To form the pluperfect, you combine the imperfect tense of the verb 'haber' with the past participle of the main verb. The forms of 'haber' are: había, habías, había, habíamos, habíais, and habían. The past participle, like 'hablado' for spoken, or 'comido' for eaten, never changes.
Quiz#3
Translate into Spanish: 'I had spoken.'

Yo había hablado.

Quiz#4
Translate into Spanish, speaking to a friend: 'You had eaten.'

Tú habías comido.

Quiz#5
Translate into Spanish: 'She had lived.'

Ella había vivido.

Quiz#6
Translate into Spanish: 'We had started.'

Nosotros habíamos empezado.

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