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habían

had

Verb habían

  1. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperfect indicative form of haber.
  2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes) imperfect indicative form of haber.
  3. There were.

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Examples

  • Cuando llegó la policía, los ladrones habían desaparecido.

    When the police arrived, the thieves had disappeared.

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  • Tom dijo que habían entrado a robar en su casa.

    Tom said his house had been broken into.

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  • El dinero que le habían prometido no era, según él, una recompensa suficiente por semejante servicio.

    The money that he had been promised was not, according to him, a sufficient reward for such a service.

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  • Ellos ni siquiera sabían lo que habían encontrado.

    They didn't even know what they had found.

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  • Habían estado fuera durante dos años y cinco meses.

    They had been away for two years and five months.

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  • Hace poco asistí a la boda de un amigo chino. La novia y el novio habían sido compañeros en la universidad, ambos se graduaron de la facultad china. Ya han estado juntos durante cinco años.

    Recently I attended the wedding of a Chinese friend. The bride and groom had been classmates at university, and both graduated from the Chinese faculty. They've already been together for five years.

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  • Todos se habían ido y él se quedó allí.

    Eveyone had left, and he stayed there.

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  • Enterraron a aquellos que habían muerto en la batalla de acuerdo a la tradición militar.

    They buried those who had died in battle according to military tradition.

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  • Muchos se habían muerto.

    Many were slain.

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  • Cuando desperté, el resto de los pasajeros habían bajado.

    When I woke up, the rest of the passengers had gotten off.

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