{"id":131,"date":"2009-02-02T11:34:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T15:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=131"},"modified":"2009-02-02T11:34:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T15:34:35","slug":"uso-de-las-expresiones-de-tiempo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/uso-de-las-expresiones-de-tiempo\/","title":{"rendered":"Time expressions in the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish has several verb tenses to express the past; two of them are <em>Pret\u00e9rito Perfecto Compuesto<\/em> (present perfect simple) and <em>Pret\u00e9rito Perfecto Simple<\/em> (simple past). This is how to distinguish them:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Pret\u00e9rito Perfecto Compuesto<\/strong> <\/em>is normally accompanied by expressions that refer to the present time. The reason for this is that this tense describes a perfect (finished) action that was completed within the same time frame the speaker is talking from. This is a subjective measure, and can change depending on the speaker&#8217;s perspective, according to how relevant the past action is in today&#8217;s world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hoy<\/strong> (today)<br \/>\n<strong>Esta<\/strong> ma\u00f1ana (this morning)<br \/>\n<strong>Esta<\/strong> semana (this week)<br \/>\n<strong>Este<\/strong> mes (this month)<br \/>\n<strong>Este<\/strong> verano (this summer)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0                  <strong>he estado<\/strong> en Buenos Aires.<br \/>\n<strong>Nunca<\/strong> (never)<br \/>\n<strong>Ya<\/strong> (already, yet)<br \/>\n<strong>Todav\u00eda<\/strong> no (not yet)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Pret\u00e9rito Perfecto Simple<\/strong><\/em> can be accompanied by past time expressions that are not related to the present. It is a finished action that was completed in a time frame that is different to the one the speaker is talking from (again, subjectively). Therefore, the action is not relevant today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ayer<\/strong> (yesterday)<br \/>\n<strong>Hace cinco a\u00f1os<\/strong> (five years ago)<br \/>\n<strong>El mes pasado<\/strong> (Last month)<br \/>\n<strong>La semana pasada<\/strong> (last week)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>estuve <\/strong>en Buenos Aires.<br \/>\n<strong>El 4 de enero de 1989<\/strong> (January 4th, 1989)<br \/>\n<strong>Hace mucho tiempo<\/strong> (a long time ago)<br \/>\n<strong>Cuando era peque\u00f1o<\/strong> (when I was a child)<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions about this, don&#8217;t hesitate to post a comment.<\/p>\n<p>See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish has several verb tenses to express the past; two of them are Pret\u00e9rito Perfecto Compuesto (present perfect simple) and Pret\u00e9rito Perfecto Simple (simple past). This is how to distinguish them: Pret\u00e9rito Perfecto Compuesto is normally accompanied by expressions that refer to the present time. The reason for this is that this tense describes a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/uso-de-las-expresiones-de-tiempo\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[119,165],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar","tag-past","tag-verb"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}