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Irregular Pluperfect

Spanish: Cambridge International GCSE, topic 10.4.8

Irregular Pluperfect

To form the pluperfect tense using irregular past participles, you use the imperfect of ‘haber’ plus the past participle of a verb. It means 'to had (done) something. For the past participle refer to 6.1.1.

Había visto - I had seen

Había visto - I had seen

Habías abierto - you had opened

Habías abierto - you had opened

Había muerto - he/she had died / you had died (formal)

Había muerto - he/she had died / you had died (formal)

Habíamos hecho - we had done

Habíamos hecho - we had done

Habíais descubierto - you had discovered (plural)

Habíais descubierto - you had discovered (plural)

Habían supuesto - they had assumed / you had assumed (formal plural)

Habían supuesto - they had assumed / you had assumed (formal plural)

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