![]() ![]() Habría estado más lleno, si hubieran vendido todos los boletos. In the past perfect subjunctive, estar refers to the place or condition in which something would have been if a past circumstance was met. Keep in mind that the table below does not contain a conjugation for vosotros since this pronoun is not used in Latin American Spanish. The imperfect subjunctive has two conjugation models depending on which type of Spanish you’re using: These subjunctive forms of ‘estar’ are irregular and are formed with the stem estuv. For example: Si estuviera enojada, no habría venido. The imperfect subjunctive of ‘estar’ can be used to build past conditions related to something or someone’s physical or emotional state. ¿Quién crees que haya estado con Julia? Person Use ‘estar’ in this tense to convey uncertainty about the location or state of something or someone. ![]() Haber in the present subjunctive + estado is the structure you must use to build the present perfect subjunctive form of ‘estar’. Notice that some of the present subjunctive conjugations of ‘estar’ have an accent mark. For instance: Ojalá el restaurante no esté lleno. Present subjunctiveĮstar’s present subjunctive conjugations refers to wishes, suggestions and expectations about the place or mood in which you want someone or something to be. The conjugation charts below show the subjunctive forms of estar. In Spanish, the subjunctive is used to talk about wishes, hypothetical situations or express uncertainty. For instance, habría estado mejor que me dijeras. The conditional perfect of ‘estar’ can be used to express that someone would have been in a certain place or state if a past condition had been met. For example: Antes de abril, habré estado en tres continentes Person In this tense, ‘estar’ communicates that someone will be somewhere or feel a certain way by or before a certain time in the future. PersonĮstar’s future perfect conjugations are formed by conjugating haber to the future tense and adding estado ( the past participle of ‘estar’). To conjugate this tense, use the formula haber (imperfect form) + estado (estar’s past participle form). The Spanish past perfect of ‘estar’ describes the location or physical/emotional state of something before some other reference point in the past. ¿Has estado en París? With this verb, the formula for the present perfect in Spanish is: ‘haber’ (present tense) + estado. You can use the present perfect forms of ‘estar’ to explain the places where you have been or the feelings you have experienced. Here is an example: si pudiera, estaría descansando en mi casa. The conditional forms of estar express what the location or physical state of something would be if a given circumstance was fulfilled. ‘Estar’ is a regular verb in the future tense. The future conjugations of ‘estar’ communicate the future location or state of someone or something. ![]() For example: Esta semana vamos a estar muy ocupados. This tense is formed with ir (present) + a + estar and can be translated as “going to be”. We use estar in the near future form to communicate the location or physical/emotional state of something in the immediate future. With this tense, ‘estar’ allows you to describe the location or state of something or someone at an unspecified moment in the past. In the past imperfect tense, estar is a regular verb. In the preterite tense, ‘estar’ allows you to express location or describe the state of something at a specific moment in time. To form this tense, we must use the stem estuv. PersonĪll estar preterite conjugations are irregular. For example: Los niños están en su cuarto. In this tense, estar can be used to express location or to describe physical or emotional states. In the present tense, the yo conjugation of ‘estar’ is irregular. Rather, it is used to build the progressive tenses! Indicative Conjugations of Estar Present tense Therefore, you will not find any conjugations in the progressive/continuous tenses as they do not exist for this or other auxiliary verbs. Take Note: Estar does not have progressive tenses since it’s the auxiliary verb we use to form these tenses. Imperfect subjunctive: estuv for all subject pronouns except ‘vosotros’.Preterite: estuv for all subject pronouns. ![]()
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