Participle in Spanish
The name in Spanish is: "Participio"
Introduction
Participle is the most used form of a verb and it is one of the three impersonal forms in Spanish (together with infinitive and gerund).
Examples:
jugado
played
caminado
walked
Construction
For the regular verbs, to build the participle is easy:
Uses of the participle
The main function of the participle is to build the compound tenses:
Indicative
- Present Perfect (Pretérito perfecto compuesto)
- Pluperfect(Pretérito pluscuamperfecto)
- Past anterior (Pretérito Anterior)
- Future perfect(Futuro Compuesto)
- Conditional perfect(Condicional compuesto)
Subjuntive
- Present perfect (Pretérito perfecto compuesto del subjuntivo)
- Pluperfect subjunctive (Pretérito pluscuamperfecto del subjuntivo)
- Future perfect (Futuro Compuesto del subjuntivo)