THERE ARE 22 TENSES.
MODO INDICATIVO
presente digo...
pretérito dije...
futuro diré...
antepresente he dicho...
antepretérito hube dicho...
antefuturo habré dicho...
copretérito decÃa ...
antecopretérito habÃa dicho ...
(Formas condicionales)
pospretérito dirÃa...
antepospretérito habrÃa dicho...
MODO SUBJUNTIVO
presente diga...
pretérito dijera...
futuro dijere...
antepresente haya dicho...
antepretérito hubiera dicho...
antefuturo hubiere dicho...
imperativo di...
Formas impersonales
infinitivo decir
infinitivo compuesto haber dicho
gerundio diciendo
gerundio compuesto habiendo dicho
participio dicho
Forms such as "está comiendo", "estuvo comiendo"..., are not real tenses in Spanish, they are just part of gerund. And most of the time they are replaced by the conjugation in Present or "copretérito" (imperfect past).
However, in English they are:
There are 14 tenses. Here's a list:
1. Present Indicative
2. Preterit Indicative
3. Imperfect Indicative
4. Future Indicative
5. Present Perfect Indicative
6. Past Perfect Indicative (technically there are two versions of this one; either preterit or imperfect; the imperfect is mostly used)
7. Future Perfect Indicative
8. Conditional
9. Conditional Perfect
10. Present Subjunctive
11. Past Subjunctive (two versions; "-ra" used musch more frequently than "-se" but technically they are interchangeable)
12. Present Perfect Subjunctive
13. Past Perfect Subjunctive
14. Commands
There are 22
"to have" as in "to posess" is tener. As a helper verb for the perfect tenses, it is haber.
"Tener" is the Spanish verb meaning "to have", as in posession of something. There is a second verb in Spanish, "haber", which means "to have" when used as an auxilary verb for perfect tenses, i.e. "have done".
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There are 12
Many of the tenses of English verbs require combining a participle of the principal verb with a simple tense of an auxiliary verb such as "be" or "have".
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"Haber" is one of the Spanish verbs for "to have". This is used as a "helper" verb to form the compound or "perfect" tenses. The other verb meaning "to have" is "tener", and is used to denote posession.
Actually, the basic verb tenses are present, past, and future. Singular and plural refer to the number of subjects in a sentence, not the tenses of the verbs.
The three main verb tenses in English are present, past, and future. Present tense refers to actions happening now or regularly. Past tense refers to actions that have already happened. Future tense refers to actions that will happen at a later time.
do dictionaries show regular and irregular verb tenses
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