Participle in Spanish

The name in Spanish is: "Participio"

Introduction

Participle is the most used form of a verb and it is one of the three impersonal forms in Spanish (together with infinitive and gerund).

Examples:

jugado
played

caminado
walked

Construction

For the regular verbs, to build the participle is easy:

Uses of the participle

The main function of the participle is to build the compound tenses:

Indicative

• Present Perfect (Pretérito perfecto compuesto)
• Pluperfect(Pretérito pluscuamperfecto)
• Past anterior (Pretérito Anterior)
• Future perfect(Futuro Compuesto)
• Conditional perfect(Condicional compuesto)

Subjuntive

• Present perfect (Pretérito perfecto compuesto del subjuntivo)
• Pluperfect subjunctive (Pretérito pluscuamperfecto del subjuntivo)
• Future perfect (Futuro Compuesto del subjuntivo)