Language/Spanish/Grammar/Past-Perfect-Tense

In Spanish, we use Past Perfect Tense when we want to talk about an action in the past that happened before another action in the past.

Structure

Subject + Haber (imperfect form) + verb (past participle) + Complement

Conjuction

If you want to say a sentence n Past Perfect Tense, you need to know how to conjugate the verb Haber. The next table shows you how you can conjugate it.

Subject	Haber (Imperfect Form)
Yo	Había
Tú	Habías
Él/Ella/Usted	Había
Nosotros/Nosotras	Habíamos
Vosotros/Vosotras	Habíais
Ustedes/Ellos/Ellas	Habían

Examples

• Yo había escrito un libro hace muchos años (I had written a book many years ago)
• Nosotras habíamos ganado el trofeo antes de que vinieras (we had won the trophy before you came)
• Vosotros ya habíais hecho la tarea cuando la pedí (You had already done the homework when I ordered it)