Spanish Present Perfect

To form the "pretérito perfecto compuesto" (present perfect simple) of the indicative mood, we need to use the auxiliary verb "haber" (have) in its present 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" and if the verb ends in "-er" or "-ir" we will add the ending "-ido". Eg:

For the verbs ending in -ar:

yo (I) he
tú (You) has
el, ella, usted (he, she, you formal) ha
nosotros, nosotras (we) hemos
vosotros, vosotras (you all) habéis
ellos, ellas, (they) ustedes (you all formal) han

Example: We take the verb "hablar" (to speak). We remove the "-ar". We are left with "habl-" (the stem) and then we add "-ado". In this way we have the past participle of the verb "hablar" (to speak).

To conjugate the pretérito perfecto compuesto (present perfect simple) of the verb"hablar" (to speak) we will use the present simple tense of the verb "haber" (to have) and the past participle of the verb "hablar" (to speak).

hablar habl--
yo (I) he hablado (I have spoken)
tú (you) has hablado (you have spoken)
el, ella, usted (he, she, you formal) ha hablado (he, she has spoken)
nosotros, nosotras (we) hemos hablado (we have spoken)
vosotros, vosotras (you all) habéis hablado (you all have spoken)
ellos, ellas, (they) ustedes (you all formal) han hablado (they have spoken)

Present Perfect