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Singular
Plural
1st person
I had + PP
we had + PP
2nd person
you had + PP
you had + PP
3rd person
he, she, it had + PP
they had + PP

    Past Perfect is used to say that you have done something in the past just like with Present Perfect; except you are not speaking about the present, you are speaking about a time that happened in the past before another time in the past. There is the time of speaking and then the time of the action. The magic word for this tense is had, which is translated as: habia, habias, habia, habiamos, habian, with the verb also in the past participle form.

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Past
Present

1) Yo habia sido (ido) a Europa.

    I had gone (been) to Europe.

2) El habia hecho eso en la lluvia antes.

    He had done that in the rain before.

3) Habias vestido en eso antes?

    Had you dressed in that before?

4) Nosotros Habiamos bebido eso trago.

    We had drinken (drunk) that drink.

5) Yo habia subido eso montana en una tormenta.

    I had climbed that mountain in a storm.

6) Ellos habian dicho eso muchas veces

    They had said that many times.

7) Ella habia leido este libro acerca de rayos.

    She had read this book about lightning.

8) Habias estado a la biblioteca?

    had you gone to the library?

9) Yo no habia hecho eso antes

    I Had you done that before.

10) El no habia ido alla en un dia claro.

    He hadn't gone there on a sunny day.

    Context - The past perfect tense is usually used in stories, because the events in the stories happened in the past, and the conversation in the stories that happened in the past are about events that happened before that:

    Kyle - I have a story for you James! I was at the beach and I saw our old friend Paola. She said she had gone to Africa. Remember how she was afraid to even leave her home? She had married a king there and offered to take me on his boat for a fishing trip.
    James - Why didn't you go? I remember when we were kids you had always told me that you always wanted to go fishing in the ocean.

* Don't let had and have of the perfect tenses get confused with the verb to have.

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