# 39. Present Perfect Tense

- **Time range:** 03:01:52 – 03:06:10  (duration 00:04:18)
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**[03:01:52]** that's it the present perfect tense in Spanish is the English version of

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> The Present Perfect Talking about something that someone HAS done + past participles

**[03:01:55]** talking about something that someone has done using the verb to have along with past participles you can generate sentences like I have talked you have

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> The Present Perfect: (In English) | have talked You have eaten He has left

**[03:02:02]** eaten he has left and so on in Spanish

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> The Present Perfect: (In Spanish)

**[03:02:04]** you have the same concept of this tense using the verb AB meaning to have done

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> The Present Perfect: (In Spanish) haber - to have done something (needs to be conjugated) + past participles

**[03:02:08]** something which needs to be conjugated the proper way along with past participles in Spanish you have six

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> “haber (to have done something):” + [a past participle] he hemos has habéis ha han

**[03:02:13]** conjugations of a y means I have plus any past participle you want to as means you have l means he has noos OS we have Vos AB y'all have and AOS an they have try not focusing on these pronouns

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> “haber (to have done something):” + [a past participle] he h emo nas tabi as Be ha an

**[03:02:29]** because they're not that useful in conversation like I said at the

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> The Present Perfect: (In Spanish)

**[03:02:32]** beginning you need to use past participles in order to demonstrate an action in the present perfect for instance saying yo abl means I have

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> The Present Perfect: (In Spanish) Yo he hablado

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> The Present Perfect: (In Spanish) Yo he hablado > | have spoken

**[03:02:39]** spoken with e being the conjugation that matches the yo pronoun and and abl being the past participle Additionally you can say to asido

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> The Present Perfect: (In Spanish) Yo he hablado > | have spoken Tu has comido El ha leido

**[03:02:48]** Ando meaning you have eaten and he has

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> The Present Perfect: (In Spanish) Yo he hablado > | have spoken Tu has comido > You have eaten El ha leido - He has read

**[03:02:51]** read again showing the proper conjugation of a with a past participle in both cases and basically the same idea applies to any sentence you want to say however there are a few things to note about the present perfect tense in Spanish that is slightly different in English the past participle does not

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> The Present Perfect: (In Spanish) The past participle does NOT change form when it’s in the present perfect; it ONLY changes once it’s used as an ADJECTIVE

**[03:03:05]** change form when it's in the present perfect it only changes once it's used as an adjective because it has to match the gender and plurality for instance I

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> The Present Perfect: (In Spanish) The doors are closed - Las puertas estan cerradas

**[03:03:13]** can say a sentence like the doors are closed lasas estas with the word SAS

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> The Present Perfect: (In Spanish) The doors are closed - Las puertas estan cerradas

**[03:03:19]** matching the gender in plurality of puas putting the sentence in the present perfect will change the gender and plurality based on the speaker so if I as a man say the sentence it would be

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> The Present Perfect: (In Spanish) The doors are closed - Las puertas estan cerradas Yo he cerrado las puertas - | have closed the doors

**[03:03:30]** Y and here I'm using S as a past

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> The Present Perfect: (In Spanish) The doors are closed - Las puertas estan cerradas Yo he cerrado las puertas - | have closed the doors

**[03:03:33]** participle of myself and not as an adjective in the previous phrase sadas is in fact used as an adjective so overall you have to watch out for these ideas additionally when working in in the present perfect tense in Spanish the

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> The Present Perfect: (In Spanish) Important Note: The construction “haber + [a past participle]“ ALWAYS has to be together and can NEVER be separated, meaning that negatives, DOPs, and IOPS will ALWAYS come before the construction

**[03:03:45]** two elements of AED and a past participle always have to be together and can never be separated this means that whenever you're working with negatives and direct and indirect object pronouns they will always come before a in every sentence asking something likeo

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> The Present Perfect: (With Negatives, DOPs, & IOPs) Has leido el libro?

**[03:03:59]** means have you read the book and you can

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> The Present Perfect: (With Negatives, DOPs, & IOPs) Has leido el libro? > Have you read the book?

**[03:04:01]** reply with C Yol meaning yes I have read

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> The Present Perfect: (With Negatives, DOPs, & IOPs) Has leido el libro? > Have you read the book? Si, yo lo he leido > | have read it

**[03:04:05]** it with Lo being the direct object pronoun before a if you want to put a negative in the phrase you can say

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> The Present Perfect: (With Negatives, DOPs, & IOPs) Has leido el libro? > Have you read the book? No, yo no lo he leido > No, | have not read it

**[03:04:11]** no no I have not read it you can also use indirect object pronouns and say something like John has told me it which

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> The Present Perfect: (With Negatives, DOPs, & IOPs) John has told me it

**[03:04:18]** would be joh Meelo with me being an

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> The Present Perfect: (With Negatives, DOPs, & IOPs) John has told me it John me lo ha dicho (IOP) (DOP)

**[03:04:21]** indirect object pronoun and La being a direct object pronoun if you want to make the sentence negative you can say

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> The Present Perfect: (With Negatives, DOPs, & |OPs) John has not told me it John no me lo ha dicho

**[03:04:27]** joh no joh has not told me it either way the construction with a and the past

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> The Present Perfect: (With Negatives, DOPs, & IOPs) John has not told me it John no me lo ha dicho

**[03:04:32]** participle always stays together and never separates as always you can say any sentence you want using the present perfect in Spanish however there's one last concept about the present perfect that needs to be known and that is using

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> The Present Perfect To have had something

**[03:04:43]** using the present perfect as to have had something in English the verb to have

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> The Present Perfect (In English - “to have”) e | have to go e | have a dog e | have read e | have eaten

**[03:04:47]** can mean a main verb like to have to do something or to have something in general or an additional verb like I have read I have eaten and so on in

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> The Present Perfect (In Spanish - “tener” & “haber”) e | have to go - Yo tengo que ir e | have a dog - Yo tengo un perro e | have read - Yo he leido e | have eaten - Yo he comido

**[03:04:54]** Spanish however you have two verbs for these cases one being ten and one being a which is different in English when you only have the same word for both the infinitive and the sentence in order to say a sentence like I have had a lot of

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> The Present Perfect (In Spanish - “haber” & “tener”) | have had a lot of friends

**[03:05:05]** friends it might be confusing for students because they see two versions of the verb to have which is have and

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> The Present Perfect (In Spanish - “haber” & “tener”) | have had a lot of friends

**[03:05:11]** had but literally the way that you would say the in Spanish

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> The Present Perfect (In Spanish - “haber” & “tener”) | have had a lot of friends Yo he tenido muchos amigos

**[03:05:14]** is much Amigos using as the proper conjugation of for the Y pronoun and using as a simple past participle of the verb tet as you can see we have the verb to have twice in English because it functions with multiple meanings in Spanish you have two verbs for this a and t with one verb being conjugated to match the pronoun and one being a past participle and this is actually a concept that I used to think about in English I used to think of phrases like

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> | have to read | have read

**[03:05:39]** I have to read and I have read and I thought that the phrases in Spanish are

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> | have to read | have read Yo tengo que leer Yo tengo leido

**[03:05:43]** Y and and the reason why I thought this way is because English has the same word for have so it must be the same in

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> | have to read | have read Yo tengo que leer Yo tengo leido

**[03:05:50]** Spanish however I later learned that Spanish has two versions for to have a and and that you also have the present perfect so I realized that the sentences are and with being the verb in the

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> | have to read | have read Yo tengo que leer Yo he leido

**[03:06:03]** present perfect even though it's a small difference it just shows you how simple of a language English is when it's compared to Spanish and there's more of
