Past Perfect

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 ___ _______________ (go, to be) to Europe.

2) El habia hecho eso en la lluvia antes.

    He ___ _____________ (do) that in the rain before.

3) Habias vestido en eso antes?

    _______ you ______________ (dress) in that before?

4) Nosotros Habiamos bebido eso trago.

    We ___ _________________ (drink) that drink.

5) Yo habia subido eso montana en una tormenta.

    I ___ ______________ (climb) that mountain in a storm.

6) Ellos habian dicho eso muchas veces

    They __ _______________ (say) that many times.

7) Ella habia leido este libro acerca de rayos.

    She ___ __________________ (read) this book about lightning.

8) Habias estado a la biblioteca?

    ______ you ________________ (go, to be) to the library?

9) Yo no habia hecho eso antes

    I ___ ________________ (do) that before.

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

    He ___ ___ _________________ (go) 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 ____________ (go) to Africa. Remember how she was afraid to even leave her home? She __________ (marry) 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 _______ always ________ (tell) 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.