Mi primera pregunta

Question

What's the difference between acabar de and haber plus past participle?

Hi and welcome to the forum. I have corrected your heading and question. Primera is used with feminine nouns, such as pregunta. - francobollo, Dec 3, 2012

QFour, Estoy en epanol tres. - Starwarsfreak, Dec 3, 2012

Answer 1

Please.... just google it yourself. It helps you learn more and faster.

Here: This is a great site for learning set expressions and definitions.

Acabar de + infinitive = to just have etc

Acabo de contestar tu pregunta - I just answered your question

haber + participle = to have etc

He contestado tu pregunta = (I have answered) your question

Espero que haya contestado la pregunta = I hope (I have answered) the question

(Haber + infinitive can be... had/have/would have etc, in the perfect.. you'll have to learn that)

Anyway, you'll have to do a nice bit of studying. There is only so much you can get out of posting questions here at this early stage of learning. This forum is more for spot learning. Filling in blanks. You're freshly learning Spanish so there are many little blanks that you'll need to fill, and this will slow you down, I guarantee it.

Here, go through all these lessons, you'll have all the theory you'll need to begin the real learning process

Good explanation! Thank you QFour! - francobollo, Dec 3, 2012

Thanks Franco! - QFour, Dec 3, 2012

@ QFour I believe you can also say 'espero haber contestado ...' ;) and if there's no change of subject and the meaning is clear I believe this is the more common way to express such a sentence. Pero todavía estoy aprendiendo también entonces si - Kiwi-Girl, Dec 3, 2012

me equivoco, no dude en avisarme ;) - Kiwi-Girl, Dec 3, 2012