Spanish Verbs 2: The Past
Talk about the past in Latin American Spanish: the preterite for what happened, with its spelling changes and irregular verbs, the imperfect for how things were and what you used to do, and how to choose between them. Part of the Spanish collection, after Spanish Verbs 1.
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Part of the Spanish collection.
SPANISH VERBS 2 · FACT
The preterite tells what happened as a finished action
The preterite (el pretérito) tells what happened. It presents a past action as finished: it took place at a definite time, or it filled a stretch of time with a clear beginning and end. Ayer hablé con mi mamá. (Yesterday I talked with my mom.) Trabajé ocho horas. (I worked eight hours.) The names pretérito perfecto simple and pretérito indefinido mean the same tense.
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6 lessons.
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- 01
Lesson 1: The Preterite of Regular Verbs
Part 1: What the Preterite Does · Part 2: Regular -ar Verbs in the Preterite · Part 3: Regular -er and -ir Verbs in the Preterite
- 02
Lesson 2: Spelling and Stem Changes in the Preterite
Part 1: Verbs in -car, -gar and -zar · Part 2: Leer, Creer and the Y Forms · Part 3: Stem Changes in -ir Verbs Only
- 03
Lesson 3: Ser, Ir, Dar, Ver and Hacer
Part 1: Ser and Ir: The Same Forms · Part 2: Dar and Ver · Part 3: Hacer
- 04
Lesson 4: Irregular Preterite Stems
Part 1: Tener, Estar and Poder · Part 2: Poner, Querer, Venir and Saber · Part 3: Decir and Traer
- 05
Lesson 5: The Imperfect
Part 1: Regular Imperfect Forms · Part 2: Ser, Ir and Ver · Part 3: What the Imperfect Describes
- 06
Lesson 6: Preterite or Imperfect?
Part 1: Event or Background · Part 2: Signal Words and Interruptions · Part 3: Verbs That Shift Meaning, and the Recent Past
What you'll be able to do 18 objectives, from the pack's lessons
- Recognize that the preterite tells finished past actions and events in a row, and use time words like anteayer, el lunes pasado and hace dos días.
- Conjugate hablar, trabajar, estudiar and comprar in the preterite, use the accents on -é and -ó, and recognize that the nosotros form matches the present.
- Conjugate regular -er and -ir verbs in the preterite, use the accents on -í and -ió, and recognize when the nosotros form matches the present.
- Conjugate -car, -gar and -zar verbs in the yo form (busqué, llegué, empecé), use regular forms for everyone else, and keep the stem of empezar and jugar.
- Conjugate leer and creer: y in usted/él/ella and ustedes/ellos/ellas (leyó, creyeron), accented í in the other forms (leí, leímos), and place the accents.
- Conjugate -ir stem changers with e to i or o to u in usted/él/ella and ustedes/ellos/ellas only (pidió, durmió), and keep the stem of pensar and volver.
- Conjugate ser and ir in the preterite, use the whole sentence to tell which verb a form is, and recognize that these forms take no written accent.
- Conjugate dar and ver in the preterite, recognize that di, dio, vi and vio take no accent, and recognize dimos (we gave) as different from damos (we give).
- Conjugate hacer in the preterite, recognize that hizo is spelled with z, and use hacer to ask and say what someone did or made.
- Conjugate tener, estar and poder in the preterite with their irregular stems, and recognize that forms like tuve and pudo carry no written accent.
- Conjugate poner, querer, venir and saber in the preterite with their irregular stems, and recognize that saber usually means to find out.
- Conjugate decir and traer in the preterite with their j stems, and say dijeron and trajeron, not the nonstandard dijieron and trajieron.
- Conjugate regular -ar, -er and -ir verbs in the imperfect, including verbs irregular in the present, and use the subject to tell yo from usted, él or ella.
- Conjugate ser, ir and ver in the imperfect with their accents, recognize them as the only three irregular verbs, and tell ser from ir (era, iba).
- Use the imperfect for habits, descriptions, age and clock time, and actions in progress, and recognize clue words like siempre as hints, not rules.
- Choose the preterite for events and the imperfect for the scene, including one verb in both tenses (estuve, estaba).
- Use signal words as hints, choose the tense by meaning when they disagree, and use the imperfect with the preterite for interruptions and mientras.
- Use conocer, saber, querer and poder in the preterite (met, found out, tried or refused, managed) and recognize the preterite for the recent past.
- Cards
- 240
- Lessons
- 6
- Version
- 1.0.5
- Language
- Spanish
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