16.12.1

Conditional Perfect Tense

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Condicional perfecto - Conditional Perfect

Tense from the past. Something would have happened under some conditions.

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Conditional Perfect

  • Just like the future tense, you need to put the verb Haber into the conditional tense to create a sense that indicates what you would have liked to do.
    • These constructions also take the past participle in the subsequent verb.
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'Haber' in Conditional

  • Yo habría - I would have
  • Tú habrías - You would have
  • Él/ella habría - He/she would have
  • Nosotros habríamos - We would have
  • Vosotros habríais - You would have
  • Ellos habrían - They would have
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Examples

  • Habría ido si hubiera tenido suficiente tiempo.
    • He would have gone if he had had enough time.
  • Habría llamado a sus padres pero fue demasiado tarde y no quiso despertarlos.
    • He would have called his parents but it was too late and he didn’t want to wake them up.
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More examples

  • Habriamos viajado a Sevilla el año pasado pero al final, no pudimos encontrar ningún hotel de buena calidad.
    • We would have travelled to Seville last year but, in the end, we couldn’t find any good quality hotels.

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16.11Future Perfect Tense

16.12Conditional Perfect Tense

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16.14Infinitive, Gerund & Past Participle

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16.16Use of the Subjunctive

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16.20After Para Que, Sin Que

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16.22After Other Subordinating Conjunctions

16.23With Verbs of Wishing & Commanding

16.24Sequence of Tense in Indirect Speech

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18.1Negation

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