So, if you wanted to say: ‘You have been to the hairdresser,' 'she has eaten all the biscuits’ or anything else in the past that ... The perfect tense in Spanish is used to talk about a ...

Also useful for describing things in the past is the word había, which means ‘there was’ or ‘there were’. This is the imperfect tense form of hay (there is). Había una fantasma en mi casa.