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 6.Conditional.This tense refers to hypothetical action or to future action viewed from past time ("I'd sing").

7.Past absolute.This tense refers to action at a specific point in past time ("I sang"). The past absolute of most verbs is as follows:

Certain irregular verbs, called "strong" verbs, have special changes in the stem for the past absolute and the two past subjunctive tenses, e.g.: venir "to come"; vine "I came"; and viniera, viniese "(that) I might come". The past absolute of these strong verbs is inflected as follows:

8.Past subjunctive.Each Spanish verb has two forms of the past subjunctive, one ending in the singular in -se and the other in -ra. The forms of these tenses are always built on the same stem as the past absolute or preterite tense:

a)Past subjunctive in -se:

b)Past subjunctive in -ra.