Conditional Perfect Tense
Spanish: AQA A Level, topic 16.12.1
Condicional perfecto - Conditional Perfect
Tense from the past. Something would have happened under some conditions.
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.
'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
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.
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.
Test yourself on Conditional Perfect Tense
Which one of the following sentences uses the Conditional Perfect tense?