Past Anterior (Preterit Perfect) - Pretérito Anterior

To form the "Past Anterior" (Preterit Perfect) of the indicative mood, we need to use the auxiliary verb "haber" (to have) in its "pretérito perfecto simple" (past simple) and the past participle of another verb.

To form the past participle of the regular verbs in Spanish, we need to take the verb as we find it in the dictionary and remove the last two letters. Then, if the verb ends in:

-ar we will add the ending "-ado"
-er or -ir we will add the ending "-ido"

For the verbs ending in -ar:

haber

			

				
 
				
haber
				
 
			
			

				
yo
				
 hube
				
(I had)
			
			

				
tú
				
 hubiste
				
(you had)
			
			

				
Ud./él/ella
				
 hubo
				
(you had)
			
			

				
nosotros (as)
				
 hubimos
				
(we had)
			
			

				
vosotros (as)
				
 hubisteis
				
(you had)
			
			

				
Uds./ellos/ellas
				
 hubieron
				
(they had)
			
		

Note: yo = I, tú = you (informal), usted (Ud.) = you (formal),
él = he, ella = she, nosotros = we (males), nosotras = we
(females), vosotros = you guys (informal, males), vosotras = 
you guys (informal, females),  ellos = they (males), ellas = 
they (females), ustedes (Uds.) = you all (formal)

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