Learn Spanish (Spain): Nunca he volado en parapente. - I have never flown in a paraglider.

Nunca he volado en parapente.

I have never flown in a paraglider.

Breakdown of Nunca he volado en parapente.

in / on / by (means of transport) / about (after pensar)

Questions & Answers about Nunca he volado en parapente.

Why are we using "he volado" here instead of the simple past tense?

Because this sentence is about a life experience. In Spain, when we talk about things we have or haven't done in our lives up to now, we use the Present Perfect (Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto). This is especially common with words like nunca (never) and alguna vez (ever).

Can I put nunca after the verb instead?

Yes, but the grammar rules change! If you put nunca at the beginning, like in this sentence (Nunca he volado), you don't need another negative word. If you want to put it after the verb, you must add no before the verb: No he volado nunca en parapente.

Why do we use the preposition en before parapente?

In Spanish, we use the preposition en for almost all modes of transportation. Just like you would say en coche (by car) or en avión (by plane), you use en parapente (in a paraglider). Notice that we also don't use a word like un (a) here.

Since the present tense of volar is yo vuelo, why isn't the past participle "vuelado"?

Even though volar has a vowel change in the present tense (o changes to ue), regular past participles do not keep those stem changes. You simply take the infinitive (volar), drop the -ar, and add -ado to get volado.