DIV: Gramática Lesson - Presente Perfecto

Presente Perfecto

As the name implies, the present perfect is a type of present tense conjugation involving a past participle. In English it looks something like this:

  • Juan has visited his grandparents numerous times.

How do we translate this sentence? In Spanish we'll need to choose the conjugation of haber that agrees with our subject, John. The present tense forms of haber (which can only be used with a past participle) are:

Presente Perfect Formula
Singular Plural Add the following:
he
has
ha		 hemos
habéis
han		  + Past Participle

The past participle of to visit (visitar) is visitado. Therefore our translation will look like this:

  • John ha visitado a sus abuelos muchas veces.

Video Lesson

Now, watch this video lesson to learn how to form the present perfect tense. We suggest you pause the video when needed, be prepared to take notes and answer the questions in this video lesson.

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