Comments on: You What? http://mackers.com/327-you_what hacker/artist/drifter Wed, 28 Dec 2011 07:58:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: mackers http://mackers.com/327-you_what/comment-page-1#comment-675 mackers Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:13:50 +0000 http://www.mackers.com/wordpress/?p=327#comment-675 Thanks for the clarification Belén! Even the names of the tenses themselves are confusing, it seems! I have updated the table. Thanks for the clarification Belén! Even the names of the tenses themselves are confusing, it seems!

I have updated the table.

]]> By: Belén http://mackers.com/327-you_what/comment-page-1#comment-674 Belén Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:11:11 +0000 http://www.mackers.com/wordpress/?p=327#comment-674 You almost managed to confuse me: and I do know my verbs. You seem to be mixing the Indicativo (indicative) with Indefinido (the first is a mode, the second is a tense). The word you are looking for when using Preterite is actually Indefinite. The Perfect and the Imperfect are also Preterites (a preterite is any tense expressing an action in the past). Fueras / fueses are not different tenses: they are the same tense (Imperfect Preterite of the Subjunctive mode). There is not Indefinite in the Subjunctive mode. We also have a Pluscuamperfect Preterite both in the Indicative and Subjunctive: habías sido and hubieras o hubieses sido The preterite perfect (has sido) is probably better translated as you have been. And we also have a Pretérito Anterior (hubiste sido), but you would probably translate that one as you had been We do use all of them in Spanish (the only tense that has effectively dissapeared from the spoken language is the Future of the Subjunctive mode: fueres). http://www.educar.org/lengua/verbo/ser.asp to review your verbs! You almost managed to confuse me: and I do know my verbs. You seem to be mixing the Indicativo (indicative) with Indefinido (the first is a mode, the second is a tense).

The word you are looking for when using Preterite is actually Indefinite. The Perfect and the Imperfect are also Preterites (a preterite is any tense expressing an action in the past). Fueras / fueses are not different tenses: they are the same tense (Imperfect Preterite of the Subjunctive mode). There is not Indefinite in the Subjunctive mode.

We also have a Pluscuamperfect Preterite both in the Indicative and Subjunctive: habías sido and hubieras o hubieses sido

The preterite perfect (has sido) is probably better translated as you have been. And
we also have a Pretérito Anterior (hubiste sido), but you would probably translate that one as you had been

We do use all of them in Spanish (the only tense that has effectively dissapeared from the spoken language is the Future of the Subjunctive mode: fueres).

http://www.educar.org/lengua/verbo/ser.asp to review your verbs!

]]> By: mackers http://mackers.com/327-you_what/comment-page-1#comment-673 mackers Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:52:09 +0000 http://www.mackers.com/wordpress/?p=327#comment-673 Yesterday, I have rash! Yesterday, I have rash!

]]> By: Cliph http://mackers.com/327-you_what/comment-page-1#comment-672 Cliph Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:49:21 +0000 http://www.mackers.com/wordpress/?p=327#comment-672 Live in the now. Live in the now.

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