Making Plans: Grammar (AQA GCSE Spanish): Revision Note

To make plans with someone in Spanish , it is useful to be able to say what you have already done - we use the present perfect for this. Let's look at this grammar point in more detail.

Present perfect

• Use the present perfect to say what you have done, e.g. ‘I have seen a film’

• Use a form of the verb haber with a past participle

• Past participles often end in -ed in English, e.g. ‘watched’, ‘danced’, ‘listened’

• There are two ways to form past participles in Spanish:

  • For -ar verbs, remove the -ar and add -ado

  • For -er and -ir verbs, remove the -er or -ir and add –ido

• There are some irregular past participles, like in English

• ¿Has visto la película?

  Have you seen the film?

• Ha llamado a Juan para invitarle

  She has called Juan to invite him

• He mandado un mensaje a mi madre

  I have sent a message to my mum

• Mis padres me han permitido venir

  My parents have allowed me to come

• Haber only means ‘have’ in this tense - in all other cases use tener