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168 Complete Spanish Grammar

15-8

ejercicio

Reacciones. Escńbe la letra de la frase que conecta y completa la frase de una manera lógica.

1.	I am lonely.	a.	jOjala pudiera dormir una siesta!
2.	This restaurant is expensive.	b.	Ni que fuera millonario.
3.	The exam is so hard.	c.	jOjala nevara!
4.	Luis is buying a luxury car.	d.	Ni que fuera tan bueno.
5.	Why are you running to class?	e.	jOjala Uwiera un buen amigo!
6.	I want to ski.	f.	Ni que fuera tarde.
1.	I am sleepy.	8'-	jQuien supiera las respuestas!

The Pluperfeet Subjimctive

Another subjunctive past tense is the pluperfeet (present perfect) subjunctive (el pluscuamper-

fecto de subjuntivo), a compound tense. Remember that in Spanish all compound tenses need

a form of the auxiliary verb haber preceding the past participle of the verb being conjugated.

Take the ellos form of the preterit indicative of haber and follow these steps:

•    Drop the -ron ending of the third-person plural hubieron.

•    Add the corresponding ending of the imperfect subjunctive -ra or -se forms. See the model that follows.

•    Add the past participle of the verb you want to conjugate: -ado ending for -ar verbs and -ido ending for -er and -ir verbs.

•    Remember that ffequently used verbs may have irregular past participles such as dicho (decir, to tell), visto (ver, to see), and escrito (escribir, to unitę). See Unit 10 and the Verb Tables in this book for review of irregular forms.

hubiera (hubiese) sacado	hubieramos (hubiesemos) dicho
hubieras (hubieses) vendido	hubierais (hubieseis) visto
hubiera (hubiese) pedido	hubieran (hubiesen) venido

Notę that the first- and third-person singular forms are the same.

Even though the -ra form appears to be the morę widely used in the Hispanic world, in most instances, either form is acceptable:

Su padre esperaba que hubiese ido    His father hoped (that) he had gone to the doctor.

al medico.

El director dudó que yo hubiera    Theprincipal doubted (that)I had conuinced

convencido a la asamblea.    the assembly.