{ "chapter_id": "44", "slug": "conditional-perfect-tense", "title": "Conditional Perfect Tense", "time_range_sec": [12051, 12168], "summary": "The conditional perfect expresses what would have happened. Formed with the conditional of haber (habría, habrías, habría, habríamos, habríais, habrían) plus a past participle.", "suggested_grammar_note_id": "conditional-if-clauses", "rules": [ { "title": "Formation", "bullets": [ "Conditional of haber + past participle.", "haber forms: habría, habrías, habría, habríamos, habríais, habrían.", "Past participle is invariable in compound tenses (always ends in -o)." ] }, { "title": "Usage", "bullets": [ "Describes an action that would have happened but did not.", "Pairs with the pluperfect subjunctive in contrary-to-fact si clauses: 'Si hubiera estudiado, habría aprobado.'", "Rare in casual speech; common in writing and formal contexts." ] } ], "examples": [ {"es": "Yo habría terminado mi trabajo.", "en": "I would have finished my work.", "tags": ["regular-participle"]}, {"es": "Tú habrías disfrutado estar ahí.", "en": "You would have enjoyed being there.", "tags": ["regular-participle"]}, {"es": "Ella habría abierto las ventanas.", "en": "She would have opened the windows.", "tags": ["irregular-participle"]}, {"es": "Nosotros habríamos comido más.", "en": "We would have eaten more.", "tags": ["regular-participle"]}, {"es": "Ellos habrían venido a la fiesta.", "en": "They would have come to the party.", "tags": ["regular-participle"]}, {"es": "Yo habría dicho la verdad.", "en": "I would have told the truth.", "tags": ["irregular-participle"]}, {"es": "¿Habrías hecho lo mismo?", "en": "Would you have done the same?", "tags": ["irregular-participle", "question"]} ], "vocab": [ {"es": "habría", "en": "would have (1s/3s)", "pos": "verb"}, {"es": "abierto", "en": "opened (irreg. participle)", "pos": "adj"}, {"es": "dicho", "en": "said (irreg. participle)", "pos": "adj"}, {"es": "hecho", "en": "done/made (irreg. participle)", "pos": "adj"}, {"es": "puesto", "en": "put (irreg. participle)", "pos": "adj"}, {"es": "visto", "en": "seen (irreg. participle)", "pos": "adj"} ], "conjugation_tables": [ { "verb": "haber", "tense_id": "cond_presente", "forms": {"yo": "habría", "tu": "habrías", "el": "habría", "nosotros": "habríamos", "vosotros": "habríais", "ellos": "habrían"} }, { "verb": "terminar", "tense_id": "cond_perfecto", "forms": {"yo": "habría terminado", "tu": "habrías terminado", "el": "habría terminado", "nosotros": "habríamos terminado", "vosotros": "habríais terminado", "ellos": "habrían terminado"} }, { "verb": "abrir", "tense_id": "cond_perfecto", "forms": {"yo": "habría abierto", "tu": "habrías abierto", "el": "habría abierto", "nosotros": "habríamos abierto", "vosotros": "habríais abierto", "ellos": "habrían abierto"} } ], "exercises": [ {"sentence": "Yo _____ terminado mi trabajo.", "correct": "habría", "distractor": "había", "explanation": "Conditional perfect uses habría (would have), not había (had)."}, {"sentence": "Ella habría _____ las ventanas.", "correct": "abierto", "distractor": "abrido", "explanation": "abrir has the irregular participle abierto."}, {"sentence": "Tú _____ disfrutado estar ahí.", "correct": "habrías", "distractor": "habrás", "explanation": "Second-person conditional of haber."}, {"sentence": "Nosotros _____ venido si nos hubieran invitado.", "correct": "habríamos", "distractor": "habremos", "explanation": "Hypothetical past needs conditional perfect, not future perfect."}, {"sentence": "Yo habría _____ la verdad.", "correct": "dicho", "distractor": "decido", "explanation": "decir → dicho (irregular participle)."}, {"sentence": "Ellos _____ hecho lo mismo.", "correct": "habrían", "distractor": "han", "explanation": "Conditional perfect: habrían + participle."} ], "caveats": "OCR mangled 'habría' → 'abria/ABA'. Form is standard; reconstructed from canonical paradigm." }