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Spanish Tenses
Definitions for 13 tenses we studied in chapters 1 through 5.
| Tense | Definition |
|---|---|
| Imperfect | used for ongoing or habitual actions in the past. |
| Preterite | used to show that events began or were completed in the past and to view past actions as a completed whole. |
| Present Subjunctive | used in the subordinate clause when the verb in the main clause of a sentence that requires the subjunctive is in the present or future. |
| Present Perfect Subjunctive | used to express an emotion, judgement, doubt, or hope about something that has happened. |
| Past Subjunctive | used in the subordinate when the verb in the main clause of a sentence that requires the subjunctive is in the past or conditional. |
| Future | used to describe what will take place. |
| Conditional | used to describe what would happen or what someone would do under certain circumstances. |
| Present Progressive | used to show an action that is in progress, |
| Present Perfect Indicative | used to say what has or hasn't happened in a period of time up to the present or to talk about something that happened very recently. |
| Present Perfect Subjunctive | used to express an emotion, judgement, doubt, or hope about something that has happened. |
| Past Progressive | used to describe past actions in progress. |
| Passive Voice | used to state that something is done or has been done to someone or something. |
| Past Perfect | used to express the event that happens first in a sequence of events. |