Question

In Spanish, write 5 sentences using words from the Present Perfect Irregular Verbs list from earlier this week.

Answer 1

What language do you speak?

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answers are:

"Yo he vuelto a casa".

"Yo he puesto dinero".

"Yo he escrito una carta".

"Yo he hecho mi tarea".

"Yo he dicho la verdad".

Explanation:

The present perfect in Spanish is known as "Pretérito perfecto" that refers to actions already happened or that have been happening until the actual moment or the near future.

In order to use it in a sentence, we have to use an auxiliary verb: "haber", which has to be conjugated according to the number and person of the subject, and then use the main verb in participle. The structure of a sentence in present perfect goes like this: subject + auxiliar verb "haber" conjugated accordingly to the subject + main verb in participle + object.

You can obtain participle in Spanish by substituting the suffix -ar of the verbs in infinitive for the suffix -ado, and substituting the suffix -er and -ir of the verbs in infinitive for the suffix -ido. But there are some irregular verbs that does not follow this rule and have a different participle, such as: escribir (escrito), volver (vuelto), ver (visto), morir (muerto), abrir (abierto), decir (dicho), imprimir (impreso), freir (frito), hacer (hecho), poner (puesto).

Now, five sentences have the singular first person subject (yo), so the auxiliar verb "haber" has to agree with this in the conjugation, thus it has to be "he", then the five verbs used are in the list of irregular verbs, that is, "volver = vuelto", "poner = puesto", "escribir =escrito", "hacer = hecho" and "decir = dicho". After the main verb, we use an object that agrees with the meaning of the sentences.