{ "chapter_id": "50", "slug": "present-perfect-subjunctive", "title": "Present Perfect Subjunctive", "time_range_sec": [14313, 14549], "summary": "The present perfect subjunctive (haya/hayas/etc. + past participle) expresses what has happened in the subjunctive form, triggered by the same W.E.I.R.D. conditions as the present subjunctive. The whole sentence stays in the present.", "suggested_grammar_note_id": "subjunctive-triggers", "rules": [ { "title": "Formation", "bullets": [ "Present subjunctive of haber (haya, hayas, haya, hayamos, hayáis, hayan) + past participle.", "Past participle is invariable here — does not agree with subject." ] }, { "title": "When to use", "bullets": [ "Same W.E.I.R.D. triggers as the present subjunctive (Wish, Emotion, Impersonal, Recommendation, Doubt).", "Both clauses must be in the present — main clause in present indicative.", "Refers to a past/completed action evaluated from the present moment." ] }, { "title": "Word order", "bullets": [ "haber + past participle cannot be split.", "Negatives and object pronouns sit BEFORE the haya- form: 'que no me lo hayan dado'." ] } ], "examples": [ {"es": "Yo espero que tú hayas dormido bien.", "en": "I hope that you have slept well.", "tags": ["esperar-trigger"]}, {"es": "Yo estoy feliz de que él haya dicho la verdad.", "en": "I am happy that he has told the truth.", "tags": ["emotion", "irregular-pp"]}, {"es": "No creemos que tú hayas comido mucho.", "en": "We don't believe that you have eaten a lot.", "tags": ["doubt"]}, {"es": "Es posible que hayamos hecho algo malo.", "en": "It's possible that we have done something bad.", "tags": ["impersonal", "irregular-pp"]}, {"es": "Es imposible que ellos hayan escrito un libro.", "en": "It's impossible that they have written a book.", "tags": ["impersonal", "irregular-pp"]}, {"es": "Yo espero que tú hayas resuelto el problema.", "en": "I hope that you have resolved the problem.", "tags": ["irregular-pp"]}, {"es": "Tú esperas que él haya estudiado para la prueba.", "en": "You hope that he has studied for the test.", "tags": ["esperar-trigger"]}, {"es": "Es triste que él no lo haya pasado.", "en": "It's sad that he has not passed it.", "tags": ["emotion", "object-pronoun"]}, {"es": "Ella duda que hayamos venido tan rápido.", "en": "She doubts that we have come so fast.", "tags": ["doubt"]}, {"es": "Ellos están preocupados de que tú los hayas visto.", "en": "They are worried that you have seen them.", "tags": ["emotion", "irregular-pp"]}, {"es": "Es una lástima que ellos no me lo hayan dado.", "en": "It's a shame that they have not given it to me.", "tags": ["impersonal", "double-pronouns"]} ], "vocab": [ {"es": "haber", "en": "to have (auxiliary)", "pos": "verb"}, {"es": "verdad", "en": "truth", "pos": "noun"}, {"es": "prueba", "en": "test", "pos": "noun"}, {"es": "lástima", "en": "shame/pity", "pos": "noun"}, {"es": "resolver", "en": "to resolve", "pos": "verb"}, {"es": "estar preocupado", "en": "to be worried", "pos": "phrase"} ], "conjugation_tables": [ { "verb": "haber", "tense_id": "subj_presente", "forms": {"yo": "haya", "tu": "hayas", "el": "haya", "nosotros": "hayamos", "vosotros": "hayáis", "ellos": "hayan"} }, { "verb": "hablar", "tense_id": "subj_perfecto", "forms": {"yo": "haya hablado", "tu": "hayas hablado", "el": "haya hablado", "nosotros": "hayamos hablado", "vosotros": "hayáis hablado", "ellos": "hayan hablado"} }, { "verb": "comer", "tense_id": "subj_perfecto", "forms": {"yo": "haya comido", "tu": "hayas comido", "el": "haya comido", "nosotros": "hayamos comido", "vosotros": "hayáis comido", "ellos": "hayan comido"} }, { "verb": "vivir", "tense_id": "subj_perfecto", "forms": {"yo": "haya vivido", "tu": "hayas vivido", "el": "haya vivido", "nosotros": "hayamos vivido", "vosotros": "hayáis vivido", "ellos": "hayan vivido"} }, { "verb": "decir", "tense_id": "subj_perfecto", "forms": {"yo": "haya dicho", "tu": "hayas dicho", "el": "haya dicho", "nosotros": "hayamos dicho", "vosotros": "hayáis dicho", "ellos": "hayan dicho"} }, { "verb": "hacer", "tense_id": "subj_perfecto", "forms": {"yo": "haya hecho", "tu": "hayas hecho", "el": "haya hecho", "nosotros": "hayamos hecho", "vosotros": "hayáis hecho", "ellos": "hayan hecho"} } ], "exercises": [ {"sentence": "Yo espero que tú _____ dormido bien.", "correct": "hayas", "distractor": "has", "explanation": "Esperar triggers subjunctive; haber must be in present subjunctive (hayas)."}, {"sentence": "Es posible que nosotros _____ hecho algo malo.", "correct": "hayamos", "distractor": "hemos", "explanation": "Impersonal expression triggers subjunctive form of haber."}, {"sentence": "No creemos que tú hayas _____ mucho.", "correct": "comido", "distractor": "comer", "explanation": "After haya- forms you need a past participle, not an infinitive."}, {"sentence": "Es triste que él no lo _____ pasado.", "correct": "haya", "distractor": "ha", "explanation": "Emotion (es triste) triggers subjunctive; the object pronoun lo goes before haya."}, {"sentence": "Es imposible que ellos hayan _____ un libro.", "correct": "escrito", "distractor": "escribido", "explanation": "Escribir has the irregular past participle escrito."}, {"sentence": "Es una lástima que ellos no me lo _____ dado.", "correct": "hayan", "distractor": "han", "explanation": "Impersonal triggers subjunctive; both pronouns precede the haber form."}, {"sentence": "Ella duda que nosotros _____ venido tan rápido.", "correct": "hayamos", "distractor": "habíamos", "explanation": "Dudar triggers subjunctive in the present, not the past — use hayamos."} ], "caveats": "OCR repeatedly dropped/garbled letters in 'haya/hayas/haber' and verb forms (e.g., 'a' for haya, 'Doro' for dormido); reconstructed from standard forms." }