IRREGULAR PAST PARTICIPLES participios irregulares
PRESENT PERFECT The present perfect tense expresses a past event (without any reference to a particular time) and brings it to the present moment.
COMPOUND TENSE The present perfect consists of two parts: haber + past participle
HABER - TO HAVE (AS A HELPING VERB) He Hemos Has Ha Han
PAST PARTICIPLE indicates a completed action Ejemplos: walked, ran, read, drank, arrived, etc.
SPANISH PAST PARTICIPLES To make a past participle in Spanish: add -ado to the stem of -AR verbs add -ido to the stem of -ER and -IR verbs Ejemplos: hablar (to speak) - hablado (spoken) comer (to eat) - comido (eaten) vivir (to live) - vivido (lived)
THE FOLLOWING VERBS HAVE IRREGULAR PAST PARTICIPLES:
decir - dicho (said/told) hacer - hecho (made/did) ver - visto (seen) escribir - escrito (written) poner - puesto (put, placed) romper - roto (broken) volver - vuelto (returned) devolver - devuelto (returned) morir - muerto (died) abrir - abierto (opened) cubrir - cubierto (covered) freír - frito (fried)
CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING
WHAT IS THE PRESENT PERFECT TENSE? expresses a past event (without any reference to a particular time) and brings it to the present moment.
WHAT CATEGORY OF VERB TENSE IS PRESENT PERFECT? compound tense
WHAT DOES “COMPOUND TENSE” MEAN? Verb tense made of two parts
WHAT ARE THE TWO PARTS OF PRESENT PERFECT? Haber + Past Participle
WHAT DOES A PAST PARTICIPLE EXPRESS? completed action
DECIR Please give the past participle for: dicho
FREÍR Please give the past participle for: frito
ROMPER Please give the past participle for: roto
VOLVER Please give the past participle for: vuelto
HACER Please give the past participle for: hecho
CUBRIR Please give the past participle for: cubierto
PONER Please give the past participle and english translation for: puesto
DEVOLVER Please give the past participle and english translation for: devuelto
VER Please give the past participle and english translation for: visto
ESCRIBIR Please give the past participle and english translation for: escrito
MORIR Please give the past participle and english translation for: muerto
ABRIR Please give the past participle and english translation for: abierto
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