el verbo haber

So far, you have only used haber as a unipersonal verb – it only has one form when it means there is / there are. Hay cuatro manzanas. There are four apples.Hay una rana en mi bolsillo. There is a frog in my pocket.

So far, you have only used haber as a unipersonal verb – it only has one form when it means there is / there are. Hay cuatro manzanas. There are four apples.Hay una rana en mi bolsillo. There is a frog in my pocket.

HABER ES UN VERBO UNIPERSONAL

In the imperfect, it means there used to be. Había un oso en la choza. There used to be a bear in the hut. In the imperfect, it means there used to be. Había un oso en la choza. There used to be a bear in the hut.

In the preterite, it means there was/ there were at a specific point in time. Hubo un terremoto. There was an earthquake.Hubo una inundación. There was a flood.

el verbo haberas a “helping verb”

You learned about “helping verbs” in grammar school. I have learned. She had spoken. We had eaten.

In Spanish, haber is used to form those helping verbs.

presente perfectohave/has done something

he hemos

has habéis

ha han

Just add them to the participio pasado to get the perfect tenses.He aprendido. I have learned. Había hablado. She had spoken.Habíamos comido. We had eaten.

pluscuamperfectohad done something

había habíamos

habías habíais

había habían

el participio pasadoForm the past participle by adding

–ado (-AR verbs) or -ido (-ER & -IR verbs) to the end of the verb.

los participios pasados irregulares

Any words ending in “olver” will turn

into “uelto”:volver-vuelto

resolver-resueltodevolver-devuelto

Etc….

Multivowel verbs will get an accent

mark on the íleer-leído

construir-construídocaer-caído