Past Participle Spanish Quiz

As adjectives, past participles in Spanish are used to describe something or someone’s characteristics. However, in this case, the past participle needs to agree with the noun in gender and number. 'Abierta' is an irregular past participle and it describes a singular feminine noun (tienda).

When combined with the verb ‘haber’, past participles are used to build Spanish compound tenses. -IR regular participles are built by adding ‘-ido’ to the stem. However, if like in this case, the stem ends with a vowel, you need to add an accent mark to -ído.

When combined with ‘haber’, past participles are used to conjugate compound tenses. Since in this case they’re not adjectives, los pasados participios don’t need to agree in gender and number with the noun. Puesto is the irregular past participle of ‘poner’.

If used to describe things or people, the past participle will have plural or feminine form depending on the noun it’s referring to. Descompuestas describes plural feminine objects (computadoras). Notice that ‘descomponer' is formed with the suffix ‘poner’, so this verb will have the same irregularities as ‘poner’.

The past participle for regular -AR verbs is formed by adding ‘-ado’  to the verb stem. In this case, probado is used to build compound tenses.

To form past participles for regular -ER verbs, you need to add - ‘ido’ to the verb stem. As a result, 'tenido' is the past participle form of ‘tener’.

In this case, the past participle is working as an adjective since it’s describing how the party was. La fiesta is a feminine singular noun, as a result, 'aburrida' is the correct past participle for this case.

In this example, the past participle is providing information about Caroline and Peter’s feelings. Since it’s working as an adjective, we need to make sure that it agrees in number and gender with the noun. “Caroline and Peter” is a plural, mixed group, so in this case, enojados is the corresponding past participle.

Regular -ER participles are built by adding ‘-ido’ to the stem. But since in this case our stem (‘le’) ends with a vowel, we need to add an accent mark to the participle ending. As a result, leído is the past participle form of ‘leer’.