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Pretérito anterior
The Spanish preterite perfect or past anterior is used to indicate an action in the past that occurred just before another action in the past.
The preterite perfect is very rare in spoken Spanish – it’s found almost exclusively in formal writing such as literature. It can only be used after conjunctions like apenas, cuando, después de que, and tan pronto como, that mean "when" or "as soon as." Its non-literary equivalents are the preterite and pluperfect.
Por ejemplo…
| Cuando hubo salido, empecé a llorar. | When he had left, I began to cry. | |
| Después de que hubimos comido, fuimos a la tienda. | After we ate, we went to the store. | |
| Apenas hube terminado cuando él llegó. | I had hardly / just finished when he arrived. |
Preterite Perfect Conjugations
The preterite perfect is a compound verb formed with the preterite of the auxiliary verb haber + the past participle of the main verb.
| HABLAR | ||||
| yo | hube hablado | nosotros | hubimos hablado | |
| tú | hubiste hablado | vosotros | hubisteis hablado | |
| él ella Ud. |
hubo hablado | ellos ellas Uds. |
hubieron hablado | |
| SALIR | ||||
| yo | hube salido | nosotros | hubimos salido | |
| tú | hubiste salido | vosotros | hubisteis salido | |
| él ella Ud. |
hubo salido | ellos ellas Uds. |
hubieron salido | |
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