Verb usage after "acabo de"

Question

What are the rules following "acabo de..." I have just looked up "I have just finished dinner" and the answer was "Acabo de terminar la cena." Is the infinitive normal after this phrase?

Answer 1

Yes. Acabar de is always followed by the infinitive. Acabar is conjugated according to the situation.

Answer 2

Yes the infinitive form of a verb will always follow acabo de... Whenever a verb follows a preposition like de or por or para it appears in the infinitive. You could also say more simply, acabo de cenar.

Answer 3

Yes, always followed by the infinitive. And while not exactly redundant, in most cases one is likely to hear acabo de infinitive than acabo de terminar infinitive, as it´s a simplification that ends up meaning the same, unless you´re really wanting to emphasize the fact of completion over ¨just having¨ done whatever it was.

hth roger