Spanish tenses
Each guide covers when to use the tense, how to form it, and which verbs break the rules.
Indicative
Present Presente
What happens now, habitually, or in the near future.
Preterite Pretérito indefinido
Completed actions at a specific point in the past.
Imperfect Pretérito imperfecto
Ongoing or repeated actions and descriptions in the past.
Future Futuro simple
What will happen, and guesses about the present.
Conditional Condicional
What would happen, plus polite requests.
Present perfect Pretérito perfecto
Past actions connected to the present.
Pluperfect Pluscuamperfecto
An action that had happened before another past action.
Future perfect Futuro perfecto
What will have happened by a certain point.