hubieras estado

you had been; you would have been

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you had been; you would have been The second-person singular pluperfect subjunctive of estar, usually used for hypothetical, wished-for, or contrary-to-fact situations. In some contexts, especially after si, it corresponds to “you would have been.”

SP: Si hubieras estado aquí, todo habría sido más fácil.

EN: If you had been here, everything would have been easier.

Hubieras estado orgulloso de mí.

You would have been proud of me.

— Picnic (1955)

Ojalá hubieras estado allí.

I wish you had been there.

No sabía que lo hubieras estado.

I didn't know you had been.

— Los Tenenbaums. Una familia de genios (2001)

Desearía que hubieras estado ahí.

I wish you had been there.

Si hubieras estado atento, esto no hubiera pasado.

If you had been paying attention, this wouldn’t have happened.