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A Level Spanish Tenses

What tenses do I need to know for the course? And does anyone have any resources such as the verb endings tables?

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by kaltsr
What tenses do I need to know for the course? And does anyone have any resources such as the verb endings tables?


These are the tenses you need to know for A level Spanish - I've given the name of the tense and the first person of the verb HACER after each one.

Simple tenses:

Present (hago)
Future (haré)
Conditional (haría)
Preterite (hice)
Imperfect (hacía)
Present subjunctive (haga)
Past subjunctive (both forms) (hiciera; hiciese)
Imperative (haz!); negative imperative (no hagas!)

Compound tenses:

Perfect (he hecho)
Pluperfect (había hecho)
Future perfect (habré hecho)
Conditional perfect (había hecho)
Perfect subjunctive (haya hecho)
Pluperfect subjunctive (hubiera hecho / hubiese hecho)

Present continuous (estoy haciendo)
Past continuous (estaba haciendo)

There's plenty of verb tables on the internet; just google "Spanish verb tables online" and you can take your pick. However, I do recommend a book - mainly because it's actually easier to learn from a book, and you can annotate and highlight stuff. The best, in my view, is "501 Spanish verbs" available everywhere - here's the Amazon link: www.amazon.co.uk/501-Spanish-Verbs-Audio-Barrons/dp/0764197975 . You can get it second-hand for under a fiver and it'll be money well spent.

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by Anna Schoon
These are the tenses you need to know for A level Spanish - I've given the name of the tense and the first person of the verb HACER after each one.
Simple tenses:
Present (hago)
Future (haré)
Conditional (haría)
Preterite (hice)
Imperfect (hacía)
Present subjunctive (haga)
Past subjunctive (both forms) (hiciera; hiciese)
Imperative (haz!); negative imperative (no hagas!)
Compound tenses:
Perfect (he hecho)
Pluperfect (había hecho)
Future perfect (habré hecho)
Conditional perfect (había hecho)
Perfect subjunctive (haya hecho)
Pluperfect subjunctive (hubiera hecho / hubiese hecho)
Present continuous (estoy haciendo)
Past continuous (estaba haciendo)
There's plenty of verb tables on the internet; just google "Spanish verb tables online" and you can take your pick. However, I do recommend a book - mainly because it's actually easier to learn from a book, and you can annotate and highlight stuff. The best, in my view, is "501 Spanish verbs" available everywhere - here's the Amazon link: www.amazon.co.uk/501-Spanish-Verbs-Audio-Barrons/dp/0764197975 . You can get it second-hand for under a fiver and it'll be money well spent.

Hi, i just wanted to ask if you could please explain how to conjugate each tense briefly because there are so many different names for each one it's so confusing.Thanks :smile:

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