Spanish/Tenses/Indicative/Perfect/Conditional

-AR / -ER / -IRconjugationexampletranslation-AR / -ER / -IRhablarto speakYohabría + past participlehabría habladoI would have spokenTúhabrías + past participlehabrías habladoYou would have spokenÉlhabría + past participlehabría habladoHe would have spokenNosotroshabríamos + past participlehabríamos habladoWe would have spokenVosotroshabríais + past participlehabríais habladoYou all would have spokenElloshabrían + past participlehabrían habladoThey would have spoken Some things to note: This tense (and all perfect tenses) uses a form of the irregular helping verb haber (meaning to have done). As this is the future perfect indicative, it takes the simple future indicative form of haber. The past participle of a regular verb is formed by adding -ado to the stem of an -AR verb, and -ido to the stem of an -ER or -IR verb. As the structure for this tense is a form of haber with the past participle, there are no irregular verbs in this tense. Any irregularity would come from a verb with an irregular past participle, but the haber + past participle structure still holds true. While the past participle is oftentimes the same word as the adjective form of a verb (las palabras habladas - the spoken words), the past participle itself is not an adjective, and therefore does not have to "agree" with the subject. Regardless of the subject's gender or number, the past participle remains the same. Ellas habrían hablado, NOT ellas habrían habladas. Be careful not to confuse the past participle with the gerund. habría hablado, not habría hablando.