What is plusamperfecto?
What is plusamperfecto?
I just read something like this:
hubiéramos comido
What does it mean?
I have looked into the SpanishDict word conjugation for comer, however, plusamperfect is nowhere to be found.
2 Answers
The tense in "hubiéramos comido" is called "pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo", and it is used for hypothetical situations that never happened or will not happen before another action. Like other subjunctive forms, it is only used used in subordinate clauses. In English it would be translated as "we had eaten", but English does not use different forms in these cases, like Spanish does.
Si hubiéramos comido... = If we had eaten... (it never happened)
It would appear to be the Past Perfect Subjunctive Here's a hint: if you would have clicked on the "show full conjugation" it would have expanded to show this. I got this out of the SD dictionary.
Past Perfect Subjunctive
hubiera comido
hubieras comido
hubiera comido
hubiéramos comido
hubierais comido
hubieran comido
