#Spanish listening practice plus#

When talking about symptoms and illnesses in Spanish, you can use these forms of the present perfect in Spanish: “Me he sentido + un síntoma” (I have felt…), “He tenido + un síntoma” (I have had…), “He tomado + algo” (I have taken…), “He comido + algo” (I have eaten…) and “He estado con + un síntoma” (I have been with…). “Yo he sentido dolor de cabeza” and “Nosotros hemos estado con diarrea”. After any of these conjugations, we will add the main activity in participle, e.g. Basically, HABER will be conjugated like this for the present tense in Spanish: “Yo he”, “Tú has”, “Él/Ella/Usted ha”, “Nosotros hemos” and “Ellos/Ustedes han”.

#Spanish listening practice plus#

It is formed by using the verb HABER plus a verb in participle (estado, comido, viajado, etc.). It is really helpful to say the symptoms you have experienced and explain why you may feel sick. The present perfect in Spanish can be a really useful tense when having a doctor – patient conversation in Spanish.

The basics about the present perfect in Spanish Unlike English, Spanish does not have a word for the suffix “-ache” so it will always be translated as “DOLOR”(pain). A variation of this phrase would be “Dolor en …” as in “ Dolor en la espalda” and “ Dolor en el pecho”. We will also use the phrase “Dolor de + a part of the body” to tell where we feel pain. First of all, the stem-changing verb DOLER will be used to indicate where people feel pain, for example: “Me duele el pecho” (I have chest pain) and “Me duele” (It hurts).