hubieres, hubieras
No creemos que nosotros hubiéremos comprado una casa.
No creemos que nosotros hubiéramos comprado una casa.
I'm trying to wrap my mind around the distinction. I would really like to know how much of a difference the one letter change makes to this sentence. Can you explain it to me please?
1 Answer
The word "hubiéremos" is the future subjunctive of "haber" so your first example is the future subjunctive perfect tense "We do not believe that we shall (will) have bought a house", the implication being something like "In a year's time... "
The word "hubiáramos" is the imperfect subjunctive of "haber" so the second example is the past perfect tense "We do not believe that we had bought a house". A rather strange concept since if you had bought a house you surely would know that and would not have to express non-belief in such!
Anyway they are 2 different compound sentences. Does this help?
