Pluperfect Subjunctive

Level 4

The pluperfect subjunctive combines hagués-type forms with a participle.

How It Works

Use hagués, haguessis, hagués, haguéssim, haguéssiu or haguessin plus a participle for an event prior to a past or remote viewpoint. Regional standard haguera-type forms also exist; use one paradigm consistently.

A past evaluation can select it: em va sorprendre que haguessis marxat. In a counterfactual condition, si haguessis vingut places the unrealized condition in the past. Its usual consequence is hauries vist..., a conditional perfect.

Do not confuse the pluperfect indicative havia vingut with this form. Both place an event earlier, but the governing construction determines whether the earlier event is asserted or presented within a subjunctive frame.

Examples (3)

  1. Em va sorprendre que haguessis marxat.

    I was surprised that you had left.

  2. Si hagués plogut, no hauríem sortit.

    If it had rained, we would not have gone out.

  3. Parlava com si ho hagués vist.

    He spoke as if he had seen it.

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Pluperfect SubjunctiveLevel 4

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Recognize subjunctive forms and nonasserted content before extending the mood to new clauses. Locate an event before a past viewpoint before selecting an advanced compound tense.

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