Are You Ready for This JELLY? Well Step on Into the World of PRETERITE! - Imperfect is Wack; Preterite is where it’s At!

Regular Formation  Drop the regular ending and add the following endings based on the ending of the original verb:  -ar verbs verbs  -ar verbs -er/ir verbs  é amosíimos  asteasteisisteisteis  ó aronió ieron  For example, take the verb comer in a sentence:  She ate a lot of hamburgers at the party. You would take off the –er ending off of comer and add the –er ending for ella, él, and usted, to the stem of comer, since the subject of the sentence is “she.” In a sentence it would look like: Ella comió mucho hamburguesas al fiesta. Example: I bought some new shoes. The verb is comprar: Yo compré unos nuevos zapatos. Now it Gets Harder!

In the Preterite, there are also other exceptions.  For verbs that end in –car, -gar, or –zar, in the yo-form, they do a special little trick!  -car-qué  -gar- gué  -zar- cé Buscar busqué buscamos Lanzar buscaste buscasteislancé lanzamos busco buscaronlanzaste lanzasteis lanzó lanzaron Jugar jugué jugamos I played with Robert yesterday jugastejugasteis Yo jugué con Robert jugió jugaron manaña.

Irregular formation/ original example  In the preterite form, there are some special verbs that change their stems in the preterite form. Then you would add the irregular ending to the verb, depending on whether the original verb had an ar or er/ir ending. Poder- pudHacer-hic Traducir- traduj Saber- supVenir- vin Ir- Fuifuimos Poner- pusQuerer- quis Ser-Fuiste fuisteis Tener- tuvTraer- traj fue fueron Estar- estuvProducir- produj Andar- anduvDecir- dij

Irregular Formation Continued  Ver- vi vimos  Ver- vi vimosIrregular endings: viste visteise imos viste visteise imos vio vieroniste isteis vio vieroniste isteis o ieron Dar- didimos diste disteis dio dieron Remember: None of the irregular endings have accents!

Creative Ways to Remember the Irregular Form  17  People- Poder Have- hacer In- ir  Sip- saberVarious- venirSomething- ser  Peppermint- PonerQookies- Querer  Tea- tenerTo- traer Very- ver  Every- estuvProudly- producir Delicious- dar  Afternoon- andarDip- decir  &Them- traer  The beginning of each letter stands for a different irregular verb.

Pancake  In the preterite, some verbs pancake, or change in the ud/ella/él form and ustedes/ellas/ellos form.  This means that it changes from o to u and e to i.  Take dormir, meaning to sleep and conjugate it out.  As you can see the o changed to a u in the bottom two forms. dormídormimos dormistedormisteis durmiódurmieron

When do we use this preterite  When talking about the past.  A direct fixed point in time. When verbs end in “ed”.  The English equivalence is simple past, fixed period of time, “ed”, had, has, and have.  We use it at a fixed point in time, a specific number of times, or during an enclosed amount of time.

How to use this preterite  When I started speaking, they started cheering.  The above sentence needs the preterite because there are verbs that end in “ed.”  Cuando yo commencé hablar, ellos commenzaron gritar.  They went to the mall.  The above sentence has an irregular english past tense.  Ellos fueron a la tienda.

More examples for preterite  When I ate the cake, I drank the drink  Spanish: Cuando yo comé el bolo, yo tomé la bebida.  Everyone has talked about the News Cast.  Todas personas hablaron sobre el News Cast.  People walked the dog late that night.  Agente andaron el perro tarde la noche.

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OMGG WEREE DONE!!  The preterite may seem difficult, but if you take it one step at a time, you will be able to figure it out.  ADIOSSS MIS AMIGOS!