How to conjugate principiar in Subjunctive Past Perfect in Spanish

principiar
to begin
regular verb

Principiar means to start or commence something. It is used in formal or literary contexts to indicate the beginning of an action or event.

How to conjugate principiar in Subjunctive Past Perfect

El Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto de Subjuntivo - used to speak about hypothetical situations in the past

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Subjunctive Past Perfect Conjugations

PronounConjugation
Yo
hubiera principiado
Tú
hubieras principiado
Él / Ella / Usted
hubiera principiado
Nosotros / Nosotras
hubiéramos principiado
Vosotros / Vosotras
hubierais principiado
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes
hubieran principiado

Examples of principiar in Subjunctive Past Perfect

Yo
Si hubiera principiado antes, habría terminado.
If I had started earlier, I would have finished.
Tú
Si hubieras principiado a tiempo, no habrías llegado tarde.
If you had started on time, you wouldn't have arrived late.
Él / Ella / Usted
Ella pensó que él hubiera principiado antes.
She thought that he had started earlier.
Nosotros / Nosotras
Si hubiéramos principiado más temprano, habríamos evitado problemas.
If we had started earlier, we would have avoided problems.
Vosotros / Vosotras
Si vosotros hubierais principiado antes, todo sería diferente.
If you all had started earlier, everything would be different.
Ellos / Ellas / Ustedes
No creía que ellos hubieran principiado sin nosotros.
I didn't think they had started without us.

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Si hubiera principiado antes, habría terminado.

Other conjugations of principiar

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Complete conjugation table
Indicative Present
Indicative Preterite
Indicative Imperfect
Indicative Present Continuous
Indicative Informal Future
Indicative Future
Indicative Conditional
Indicative Present Perfect
Indicative Past Perfect
Indicative Future Perfect
Indicative Conditional Perfect
Subjunctive Present
Subjunctive Imperfect
Subjunctive Future
Subjunctive Present Perfect
Subjunctive Future Perfect
Imperative Affirmative
Imperative Negative

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