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What are the most used tenses in Spanish? ¿Cuáles son los tiempos más usados ​​en español?
I've been learning spanish recently and threw myself in the wonderful world of conjugations *fake smile + internal panic attack*
So what do you think are the most used tenses in Spanish? I've started learning about present, present progressive, simple past, imperfect and simple future.
What else do you think I should peep on?

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¡Hola, Djam!

Good choice: presente, imperfecto, pretérito (simple past), future and perfecto (haber + participio) are the most common tenses in the indicative mood.

Once you get to a A2+ and you have a good understanding of the previous structures, I recommend you start learning the subjunctive mood in present. We use that a lot in Spanish when we talk about desires, doubts, the unknown, the abstract, and emotions, also for the imperative in negative. It is a good idea to invest time learning it.

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Au revoir!
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I’d dare to say that they are all used. Well, of course, in different contexts you need different tenses but still if you want to one day achieve fluency being able to discuss different topics without making too much effort, in the end you’ll want to master all those condicionales, el subjuntivo, los pretéritos. By the way, el pretérito perfecto (He hecho) might seem like the English Present Perfect but it’s not exactly the same, I think in European Spanish el pretérito perfecto is more common than the Present Perfect in English.
Also, I hope you are not studying all these tenses at the same time :)

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