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how they are used: the ",[62,63,64],"strong",{},"pluperfect subjunctive"," and the ",[62,67,68],{},"conditional perfect"," are the two halves of the counterfactual past, the grammar of regret and of what never happened. ",[62,71,72],{},"Si hubiera sabido, habría venido"," - if I had known, I would have come. One tense for the if, one for the then.",[58,75,76,77,80,81,65,86,90,91,94],{},"The good news is that both are compound, and compound tenses in Spanish are formulaic: an auxiliary plus a past participle, and the auxiliary is always ",[62,78,79],{},"haber",". All you are really learning here is two new tenses of one verb. This page assumes you can already build the ",[82,83,85],"a",{"href":84},"\u002Fspanish\u002Fgrammar\u002Fimperfect-subjunctive-forms","imperfect subjunctive",[82,87,89],{"href":88},"\u002Fspanish\u002Fgrammar\u002Fconditional","conditional",", and that your past participles - ",[62,92,93],{},"hablado, comido, vivido, hecho, dicho, visto, puesto"," - are solid.",[96,97,99],"h2",{"id":98},"building-the-pluperfect-subjunctive-imperfect-subjunctive-of-haber-participle","Building the pluperfect subjunctive: imperfect subjunctive of haber + participle",[58,101,102,103,106,107,110],{},"The recipe is one line. Take the ",[62,104,105],{},"imperfect subjunctive of haber"," and add a ",[62,108,109],{},"past participle",".",[58,112,113,114,117,118,121],{},"Because it is built on the imperfect subjunctive, it inherits that tense's two-for-one deal: haber has both a ",[62,115,116],{},"-ra"," set and a ",[62,119,120],{},"-se"," set, and they are completely interchangeable.",[123,124,125,141],"table",{},[126,127,128],"thead",{},[129,130,131,135,138],"tr",{},[132,133,134],"th",{},"Person",[132,136,137],{},"-ra set",[132,139,140],{},"-se set",[142,143,144,156,167,176,193,204],"tbody",{},[129,145,146,150,153],{},[147,148,149],"td",{},"yo",[147,151,152],{},"hubiera",[147,154,155],{},"hubiese",[129,157,158,161,164],{},[147,159,160],{},"tú",[147,162,163],{},"hubieras",[147,165,166],{},"hubieses",[129,168,169,172,174],{},[147,170,171],{},"él \u002F ella \u002F usted",[147,173,152],{},[147,175,155],{},[129,177,178,181,188],{},[147,179,180],{},"nosotros",[147,182,183,184,187],{},"hub",[62,185,186],{},"ié","ramos",[147,189,183,190,192],{},[62,191,186],{},"semos",[129,194,195,198,201],{},[147,196,197],{},"vosotros",[147,199,200],{},"hubierais",[147,202,203],{},"hubieseis",[129,205,206,209,212],{},[147,207,208],{},"ellos \u002F ellas \u002F ustedes",[147,210,211],{},"hubieran",[147,213,214],{},"hubiesen",[58,216,217],{},"Add the participle and you have the tense:",[123,219,220,233],{},[126,221,222],{},[129,223,224,227,230],{},[132,225,226],{},"Auxiliary",[132,228,229],{},"+ participle",[132,231,232],{},"Pluperfect subjunctive",[142,234,235,246,256,266,277],{},[129,236,237,240,243],{},[147,238,239],{},"hubiera \u002F hubiese",[147,241,242],{},"hablado",[147,244,245],{},"hubiera hablado \u002F hubiese hablado",[129,247,248,250,253],{},[147,249,239],{},[147,251,252],{},"comido",[147,254,255],{},"hubiera comido \u002F hubiese comido",[129,257,258,260,263],{},[147,259,239],{},[147,261,262],{},"venido",[147,264,265],{},"hubiera venido \u002F hubiese venido",[129,267,268,271,274],{},[147,269,270],{},"hubiéramos",[147,272,273],{},"dicho",[147,275,276],{},"hubiéramos dicho",[129,278,279,281,284],{},[147,280,211],{},[147,282,283],{},"hecho",[147,285,286],{},"hubieran hecho",[58,288,289,290,293,294,296,297,293,300,303,304,307,308,310,311,314],{},"Three things to nail down. The ",[62,291,292],{},"participle never moves"," - it is ",[62,295,242],{}," for every person and both genders, because in a compound tense the participle is frozen; only the auxiliary conjugates. ",[62,298,299],{},"Nothing may come between haber and the participle",[62,301,302],{},"no lo hubiera dicho",", never \"hubiera no dicho\". And the ",[62,305,306],{},"nosotros form carries a written accent",", ",[62,309,270],{}," and ",[62,312,313],{},"hubiésemos",", exactly as it did in the plain imperfect subjunctive; leave it off and the word is misspelt.",[96,316,318],{"id":317},"building-the-conditional-perfect-conditional-of-haber-participle","Building the conditional perfect: conditional of haber + participle",[58,320,321,322,324,325,328,329,332],{},"Same participle, different haber. The ",[62,323,68],{}," takes the ",[62,326,327],{},"conditional of haber"," - the ",[62,330,331],{},"-ía"," forms - and adds the participle.",[123,334,335,347],{},[126,336,337],{},[129,338,339,341,344],{},[132,340,134],{},[132,342,343],{},"Conditional of haber",[132,345,346],{},"+ hablado",[142,348,349,359,369,377,387,397],{},[129,350,351,353,356],{},[147,352,149],{},[147,354,355],{},"habría",[147,357,358],{},"habría hablado",[129,360,361,363,366],{},[147,362,160],{},[147,364,365],{},"habrías",[147,367,368],{},"habrías hablado",[129,370,371,373,375],{},[147,372,171],{},[147,374,355],{},[147,376,358],{},[129,378,379,381,384],{},[147,380,180],{},[147,382,383],{},"habríamos",[147,385,386],{},"habríamos hablado",[129,388,389,391,394],{},[147,390,197],{},[147,392,393],{},"habríais",[147,395,396],{},"habríais hablado",[129,398,399,401,404],{},[147,400,208],{},[147,402,403],{},"habrían",[147,405,406],{},"habrían hablado",[58,408,409,410,413,414,417,418,421,422,425,426,429,430,432,433,436,437,440,441,443],{},"So ",[62,411,412],{},"habría comido"," (I would have eaten), ",[62,415,416],{},"habrías venido"," (you would have come), ",[62,419,420],{},"habríamos hecho"," (we would have done), ",[62,423,424],{},"habrían dicho"," (they would have said). Note the stem is ",[62,427,428],{},"habr-",", the same irregular future\u002Fconditional stem as the simple conditional, and every person keeps the written accent on the ",[62,431,331],{},": ",[62,434,435],{},"habría, habrías, habríamos, habríais, habrían",". Unlike the pluperfect subjunctive, the conditional perfect has ",[62,438,439],{},"no -se alternative"," - the conditional is always ",[62,442,331],{},", never anything else.",[96,445,447],{"id":446},"the-pairing-the-third-conditional-the-counterfactual-past","The pairing: the third conditional (the counterfactual past)",[58,449,450,451,454],{},"Now the two tenses meet, and this is the reason to learn them together. The ",[62,452,453],{},"third conditional"," is the sentence about a past that did not happen and now cannot be changed. Its shape is fixed:",[456,457,458],"blockquote",{},[58,459,460,307,463],{},[62,461,462],{},"si + pluperfect subjunctive",[62,464,68],{},[466,467,468,475,481,487],"ul",{},[469,470,471,474],"li",{},[62,472,473],{},"Si hubiera sabido, habría venido."," (If I had known, I would have come.) - but I did not know, so I did not come.",[469,476,477,480],{},[62,478,479],{},"Si hubieras estudiado, habrías aprobado."," (If you had studied, you would have passed.)",[469,482,483,486],{},[62,484,485],{},"Si no hubiera llovido, habríamos ido a la playa."," (If it had not rained, we would have gone to the beach.)",[469,488,489,492],{},[62,490,491],{},"Si me lo hubieras dicho, no habría comprado dos."," (If you had told me, I would not have bought two.)",[58,494,495,496,499,500,503,504,508,509,310,511,513,514,517,518,521,522,524,525,527],{},"The ",[62,497,498],{},"si"," half sets up the impossible condition with the pluperfect subjunctive; the result half states what would then have followed with the conditional perfect. Both halves look back at closed history. This is the full counterfactual, and it slots in as ",[62,501,502],{},"Type 3"," of the ",[82,505,507],{"href":506},"\u002Fspanish\u002Fgrammar\u002Fsi-clauses","si clauses"," system, alongside the real and the unreal-present conditionals covered there. The ",[62,510,116],{},[62,512,120],{}," forms are interchangeable in the si half - ",[62,515,516],{},"si hubieras"," or ",[62,519,520],{},"si hubieses"," - but, as ever, the conditional perfect result stays ",[62,523,355],{},", never a ",[62,526,120],{}," form.",[96,529,531],{"id":530},"the-colloquial-swap-hubiera-for-habría-in-the-result","The colloquial swap: hubiera for habría in the result",[58,533,534,535,538],{},"Here is the wrinkle the textbooks are often shy about. In real Spanish, across most of the Spanish-speaking world, the pluperfect subjunctive frequently ",[62,536,537],{},"replaces the conditional perfect in the result half",". So alongside the textbook",[466,540,541],{},[469,542,543],{},[62,544,473],{},[58,546,547],{},"you will constantly hear and read",[466,549,550],{},[469,551,552],{},[62,553,554],{},"Si hubiera sabido, hubiera venido.",[58,556,557,558,560,561,564,565,568],{},"Both halves in the pluperfect subjunctive. This is not sloppy Spanish to be corrected out of learners; it is idiomatic, extremely common, and entirely acceptable, and the ",[62,559,120],{}," form does the same job (",[62,562,563],{},"si hubiese sabido, hubiese venido","). My steer: ",[62,566,567],{},"recognise it everywhere, and use it freely in speech"," - it will make you sound more native than the rigid habría, not less.",[58,570,571,572,575,576,579,580,110],{},"But the swap runs in ",[62,573,574],{},"one direction only",", and this is the hard line. ",[62,577,578],{},"Hubiera can move into the result half; habría can never move into the si half."," The golden rule of si clauses still holds absolutely: no conditional form ever follows ",[62,581,498],{},[466,583,584,589,594],{},[469,585,586,587],{},"Correct: ",[62,588,473],{},[469,590,586,591,593],{},[62,592,554],{}," (the colloquial swap)",[469,595,596,597,600,601,604],{},"Wrong: ",[62,598,599],{},"Si habría sabido, habría venido."," - ",[62,602,603],{},"si habría"," is never Spanish.",[58,606,607,608,610],{},"So hubiera-for-habría in the result is a free choice; habría-for-hubiera after ",[62,609,498],{}," is a mistake, full stop.",[96,612,614],{"id":613},"the-pluperfect-subjunctives-other-jobs","The pluperfect subjunctive's other jobs",[58,616,617,618,620,621,624],{},"The conditional perfect is largely a one-trick tense - it lives in the result of a third conditional and in a few reported-speech and probability uses. The ",[62,619,64],{},", though, has a life beyond si clauses. Any time a sentence needs the subjunctive ",[62,622,623],{},"and"," the action is a past-before-a-past, this is the tense.",[626,627,629],"h3",{"id":628},"past-in-past-subjunctive-triggers","Past-in-past subjunctive triggers",[58,631,632,633,636],{},"When a normal subjunctive trigger - emotion, doubt, denial, an impersonal expression - sits in the past, and the thing being reacted to happened ",[62,634,635],{},"earlier still",", the subordinate verb goes into the pluperfect subjunctive.",[466,638,639,645,651,657],{},[469,640,641,644],{},[62,642,643],{},"Me alegré de que hubieras venido."," (I was glad that you had come.) - the gladness is past, the coming earlier.",[469,646,647,650],{},[62,648,649],{},"No creía que hubiéramos terminado."," (He did not believe that we had finished.)",[469,652,653,656],{},[62,654,655],{},"Fue una pena que no lo hubieras visto."," (It was a shame that you had not seen it.)",[469,658,659,662],{},[62,660,661],{},"Era imposible que ya hubieran llegado."," (It was impossible that they had already arrived.)",[58,664,665,666,669,670,673],{},"Compare ",[62,667,668],{},"me alegré de que vinieras"," (I was glad you came, same time frame) with ",[62,671,672],{},"me alegré de que hubieras venido"," (I was glad you had come, earlier). The pluperfect subjunctive is what buys you that extra step back.",[626,675,677],{"id":676},"ojalá-hubiera-regret-about-the-past","ojalá hubiera - regret about the past",[58,679,680,683],{},[62,681,682],{},"Ojalá"," plus the pluperfect subjunctive is the tense of wishing the past had been otherwise. It is pure regret.",[466,685,686,692,698],{},[469,687,688,691],{},[62,689,690],{},"Ojalá hubiera estudiado más."," (If only I had studied more.) - but I did not.",[469,693,694,697],{},[62,695,696],{},"Ojalá no lo hubiera dicho."," (I wish I had not said it.)",[469,699,700,703],{},[62,701,702],{},"Ojalá hubieras estado allí."," (I wish you had been there.)",[58,705,706,707,710,711,714],{},"With the imperfect subjunctive ",[62,708,709],{},"ojalá tuviera"," wishes about the present; with the pluperfect subjunctive ",[62,712,713],{},"ojalá hubiera tenido"," wishes about a past that is already sealed.",[626,716,718],{"id":717},"como-si-hubiera-an-unreal-past-comparison","como si hubiera - an unreal past comparison",[58,720,721,724],{},[62,722,723],{},"Como si"," (as if) always takes the subjunctive, and when the comparison points at the past, it takes the pluperfect subjunctive.",[466,726,727,733,739],{},[469,728,729,732],{},[62,730,731],{},"Me miró como si hubiera visto un fantasma."," (She looked at me as if she had seen a ghost.) - she had not.",[469,734,735,738],{},[62,736,737],{},"Hablaba del viaje como si hubiera estado allí."," (He talked about the trip as if he had been there.)",[469,740,741,744],{},[62,742,743],{},"Actuó como si nada hubiera pasado."," (He acted as if nothing had happened.)",[58,746,747,750,751,754,755,758],{},[62,748,749],{},"Como si fuera"," compares to an unreal present; ",[62,752,753],{},"como si hubiera"," compares to an unreal past. There is never a ",[62,756,757],{},"como si había"," - the comparison is contrary to fact, so it must be subjunctive.",[96,760,762],{"id":761},"worked-examples","Worked examples",[466,764,765,771,777,783,789,795,801],{},[469,766,767,770],{},[62,768,769],{},"Si lo hubiera sabido, te lo habría dicho."," (If I had known, I would have told you.) - the textbook third conditional.",[469,772,773,776],{},[62,774,775],{},"Si lo hubiera sabido, te lo hubiera dicho."," (Same meaning.) - the colloquial hubiera-for-habría swap.",[469,778,779,782],{},[62,780,781],{},"Habríamos llegado a tiempo si no hubiese habido tanto tráfico."," (We would have arrived on time if there had not been so much traffic.) - result first, no comma, -se form in the si half.",[469,784,785,788],{},[62,786,787],{},"Me alegré mucho de que hubieras aprobado."," (I was very glad that you had passed.) - past-in-past trigger.",[469,790,791,794],{},[62,792,793],{},"Ojalá hubiéramos comprado la casa entonces."," (If only we had bought the house then.) - regret, note the nosotros accent.",[469,796,797,800],{},[62,798,799],{},"Gastaba como si le hubiera tocado la lotería."," (He spent as if he had won the lottery.) - como si, unreal past.",[469,802,803,806],{},[62,804,805],{},"¿Qué habrías hecho tú en mi lugar?"," (What would you have done in my place?) - conditional perfect as a standalone question.",[96,808,810],{"id":809},"common-mistakes-english-speakers-make","Common mistakes English speakers make",[58,812,813,816,817,820,821,823,824,600,826,829,830,832,833,835],{},[62,814,815],{},"Putting the conditional after si."," The cardinal sin, and it survives even here. English \"if I would have known\" tempts learners into ",[62,818,819],{},"si habría sabido","; Spanish forbids it. The ",[62,822,498],{}," half takes the ",[62,825,64],{},[62,827,828],{},"si hubiera sabido"," - and the conditional perfect stays in the result, or is itself swapped for another hubiera. If ",[62,831,498],{}," is followed by ",[62,834,355],{},", it is wrong.",[58,837,838,841,842,310,844,846],{},[62,839,840],{},"Forgetting the nosotros accent."," It is ",[62,843,270],{},[62,845,313],{},", with the accent on the third syllable from the end, every time. Writing \"hubieramos\" is the same slip as \"hablaramos\" - the stress mark is compulsory, not optional.",[58,848,849,852,853,855,856,859,860,863],{},[62,850,851],{},"Splitting the auxiliary from the participle."," Nothing goes between ",[62,854,79],{}," and the participle. Pronouns and negatives sit ",[62,857,858],{},"in front"," of the whole block: ",[62,861,862],{},"no lo hubiera hecho, nunca habría venido",", never \"hubiera no hecho\" or \"habría nunca venido\".",[58,865,866,869,870,873,874,877,878,310,881,884,885,887],{},[62,867,868],{},"Making the participle agree."," In a compound tense the participle is invariable: ",[62,871,872],{},"ella hubiera hablado, ellos hubieran hablado, las cartas que habría escrito"," - always ",[62,875,876],{},"-o",". Participle agreement belongs to ",[62,879,880],{},"ser\u002Festar",[62,882,883],{},"tener"," constructions, not to ",[62,886,79],{},". It is never \"hubiera hablada\".",[58,889,890,893,894,310,897,899,900,902],{},[62,891,892],{},"Using the imperfect subjunctive where the past-in-past is needed."," ",[62,895,896],{},"Me alegré de que vinieras",[62,898,672],{}," are both grammatical but say different things: the first puts the coming at the same time as the gladness, the second puts it earlier. If you mean the deeper past, you need the ",[62,901,152],{}," layer.",[58,904,905],{},"Build both tenses from haber, remember that the pluperfect subjunctive carries the if and the conditional perfect carries the then, and let hubiera cover for habría when you speak. That, plus the ojalá, como si and past-trigger uses, is the whole of the top shelf of the Spanish verb system.",[96,907,909],{"id":908},"see-also","See also",[466,911,912,918,923,929],{},[469,913,914,917],{},[82,915,916],{"href":84},"The imperfect subjunctive"," - the hubiera \u002F hubiese forms live here; the pluperfect subjunctive is just this tense of haber plus a participle.",[469,919,920,922],{},[82,921,507],{"href":506}," - the third conditional, si hubiera... habría..., in its full context alongside the real and unreal-present types.",[469,924,925,928],{},[82,926,927],{"href":88},"The conditional"," - the habría half of the pairing, and why it can never sit after si.",[469,930,495,931,935],{},[82,932,934],{"href":933},"\u002Fspanish\u002Fgrammar","Spanish grammar cheatsheet"," has both paradigms and the third-conditional pairing on one card.",{"title":937,"searchDepth":938,"depth":938,"links":939},"",2,[940,941,942,943,944,950,951,952],{"id":98,"depth":938,"text":99},{"id":317,"depth":938,"text":318},{"id":446,"depth":938,"text":447},{"id":530,"depth":938,"text":531},{"id":613,"depth":938,"text":614,"children":945},[946,948,949],{"id":628,"depth":947,"text":629},3,{"id":676,"depth":947,"text":677},{"id":717,"depth":947,"text":718},{"id":761,"depth":938,"text":762},{"id":809,"depth":938,"text":810},{"id":908,"depth":938,"text":909},"B2-C1","Two compound tenses that do their best work together. The pluperfect subjunctive is the imperfect subjunctive of haber plus a past participle: hubiera hablado or hubiese hablado, with the full paradigm hubiera \u002F hubieras \u002F hubiera \u002F hubiéramos \u002F hubierais \u002F hubieran (and the -se twin). The conditional perfect is the conditional of haber plus the participle: habría hablado. They pair up in the third conditional, the counterfactual past - si hubiera sabido, habría venido - and colloquial Spanish often lets hubiera stand in for habría in the result half. Beyond si clauses, the pluperfect subjunctive powers past-in-past triggers (me alegré de que hubieras venido), ojalá hubiera and como si hubiera. The two paradigms, the pairing, the hubiera-for-habría swap and the other uses, all here.","md",[957,960,963],{"q":958,"a":959},"How do you form the pluperfect subjunctive in Spanish?","Take the imperfect subjunctive of haber and add a past participle. Haber has two interchangeable sets: hubiera, hubieras, hubiera, hubiéramos, hubierais, hubieran, or hubiese, hubieses, hubiese, hubiésemos, hubieseis, hubiesen. So hablar gives hubiera hablado or hubiese hablado, comer gives hubiera comido, venir gives hubiera venido. The participle never changes for person or gender in a compound tense - it is always hablado, comido, venido - and nothing may come between the auxiliary and it. Note the written accent on the nosotros form: hubiéramos, hubiésemos.",{"q":961,"a":962},"What is the difference between the pluperfect subjunctive and the conditional perfect?","They are built from the same participle but a different form of haber, and they live in different halves of a sentence. The pluperfect subjunctive uses the imperfect subjunctive of haber - hubiera hablado - and marks an unreal past condition, the if half: si hubiera estudiado. The conditional perfect uses the conditional of haber - habría hablado - and marks the unreal past result, the then half: habría aprobado. In the third conditional they pair up: si hubiera estudiado, habría aprobado, if I had studied, I would have passed. One sets up the counterfactual, the other says what would have followed.",{"q":964,"a":965},"Can hubiera replace habría in the result of a third conditional?","Yes, and in speech it very often does. The textbook pairing is si hubiera sabido, habría venido, but colloquial and even careful Spanish across most of the Spanish-speaking world will write si hubiera sabido, hubiera venido, using the pluperfect subjunctive in both halves. It is entirely idiomatic and widely accepted. The swap only runs one way: hubiera can stand in for habría in the result, but habría can never move into the si half - si habría sabido is always wrong. So hubiera-for-habría is fine; habría-for-hubiera never is.","higher","The pluperfect subjunctive and the conditional perfect are the two compound tenses that sit at the top of the Spanish verb system, and they are almost always seen holding hands. Each is built the same lazy way: take the auxiliary haber, put it in the tense you need, and bolt on a past participle. For the pluperfect subjunctive that auxiliary is the imperfect subjunctive of haber - hubiera or hubiese - giving hubiera hablado, hubiese comido, hubieras venido. For the conditional perfect it is the conditional of haber - habría - giving habría hablado. On their own each has jobs to do, but their headline act is the third conditional, the counterfactual past that mourns what never happened: si hubiera sabido, habría venido, if I had known, I would have come. The pluperfect subjunctive carries the if, the conditional perfect carries the result, and in real speech the two blur, because Spanish happily lets hubiera stand in for habría in the result half. This page builds both paradigms, shows the pairing, explains the colloquial swap, and then follows the pluperfect subjunctive out into its other homes. 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