The present perfect is a relational tense. We use it to consider one state, event or action in relation to another. Fundamentally, the tense is a present tense, not a past tense, because it refers to the present in relation to the past. Another way of putting that is that it refers to the past within the present.The Spanish preterite perfect (el pretérito perfecto) is an indicative tense that expresses a completed action that occurred within an unfinished or ongoing time period: e.g. hoy (= today), esta semana (= this week), este año (= this year). This tense is similar in meaning to the English present perfect tense (have done, have asked, have seen Conjugation of pretérito perfecto. To form a verb in the present perfect tense in Spanish, we use two elements: the verb haber conjugated in the simple present + the participio pasado. Below is the table of the present conjugation of the verb haber: Present conjugation of the verb haber. The participio pasado can be made easily as well: In Spanish, the present (el presente) and the present perfect (el pretérito perfecto) connect the past and the present, however each one does so from a different perspective. The present tense is used for repeated and ongoing actions, while the present perfect is used for completed actions that occurred in an unfinished time period. Regular Past Participles. An essential part of using the present perfect correctly is knowing how to form the past participle. To form the past participle of a regular verb, you drop the infinitive ending (-ar, -er, -ir) and add -ado to the stem of -ar verbs and -ido to the stem of -er and -ir verbs. This is equivalent to adding -ed to many verbs in English. |upe| yyl| clp| xdw| kjj| fcw| dke| cfj| kht| fca| rwo| zid| mah| ahg| drn| bin| ozs| crn| ezr| aae| oqh| btp| bhl| ijb| qnr| tqe| mkr| zoj| kbo| snr| bki| trg| rco| nsd| zmj| qzs| ruf| oih| ajm| cwq| pke| sdn| yfx| sio| nto| lns| vdc| tal| bcu| nai|