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El Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto is used in Spanish to express what had happened. Lots of Spanish verbs are regular in this tense as they have a regular past participle.
Learn how to conjugate regular Spanish verbs in El Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto in Spanish
It's formed with El Pretérito Imperfecto of haber plus the past participle of the main verb:
| yo | había | |
| tú | habías | |
| él / ella / Ud. |
había | + past participle |
| nosotros / nosotras |
habíamos | |
| vosotros / vosotras |
habíais | |
| ellos /ellas/ Uds. |
habían |
Notice how in all forms of haber in the pluperfect tense there is a written accent on the -i (había, habías, había, habíamos, habíais, habían)
Read and listen to these regular verbs conjugated in El Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto:
Nosotros ya habíamos conducido por la derecha en España.We had already driven on the right-hand side in Spain.
We use El Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto to express when something "had happened" in the past.
Remember:
regular -ar, -er and -ir past participles:
habl-ar -> habl-ado
com-er -> com-ido
viv-ir -> viv-ido
See also:
- Conjugate hacer, escribir, ver, decir, poner in the pluperfect tense in Spanish (El Pluscuamperfecto)
- List of Spanish regular -ar verbs and past participles (-ado)
- List of Spanish regular -er/-ir verbs and past participles (-ido)
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