Game: Identify the Tense (cocinar)

Here are all of the Spanish tenses that you’ll learn in the course. As you do the quiz, don’t get overwhelmed. Remember, you’ll gradually learn each tense one by one. This game simply gives you an overview of what you’ll be learning. If you master this game, you’ll have a huge head start for the rest of the course! (But, if it feel like it’s too much, don’t worry and just move on – you’re not meant to master it – yet.)

• Present Tense (I cook) – cocino
• Present Perfect Tense (I have cooked) – he cocinado
• Preterite Tense (I cooked) – cociné
• Imperfect Tense (I was cooking / I used to cook) – cocinaba
• Future Tense (I will cook) – cocinaré
• Conditional Tense (I would cook) – cocinaría
• Present Subjunctive (It’s important that I cook) – cocine
• Imperfect Subjunctive (If I cooked) – cocinara
• Present Perfect Subjunctive (I hope that I have cooked) – haya cocinado
• Past Perfect (Pluperfect) Tense (I had cooked) – había cocinado
• Past (Preterite) Perfect Tense (I had cooked at a specific moment in the past) – hube cocinado
• Future Perfect Tense (I will have cooked) – habré cocinado
• Conditional Perfect Tense (I would have cooked) – habría cocinado
• Present Progressive Tense (I am cooking right now) – estoy cocinando
• Past Progressive Tense (I was cooking at a specific moment in the past) – estaba cocinando
• Past Subjunctive Imperfect (If I had cooked) – hubiera cocinado
• Imperative Mood (Commands – Cook!) – ¡Cocina!