What is the verb time of...
They admitted HAVING STOLEN the money.
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Susan is right: It's the gerund form of "have stolen". The actual tense is in the past - "admitted" - as this is reported speech. Gerunds don't have a time because they function as objects.
You use the gerund in this case because "to admit" is transitive. It needs an object, which in this case is the action.
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"Admitted"is the main verb and it is in the simple past, "having stolen" is a perfect gerund. A gerund is a verb ending in -ing that acts like a noun.
Look at this website;
http://www.grammaring.com/the-forms-of-the-gerund
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Google Translate syas "Admitieron haber robado el dinero". My Spanish isn't advanced enough to verify if this is grammatical.
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What could be the meaning in Spanish?
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everything has the reason to exist.
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