1 El Imperfecto de los verbos 2 Talking about the past There are ____ past tenses in Spanish. If the action occurred in the______ and the speaker can.

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2 1 El Imperfecto de los verbos

3 2 Talking about the past There are ____ past tenses in Spanish. If the action occurred in the______ and the speaker can tell precisely _____ the action occurred use the __________________. 2 PRETERITE (pretréito) PAST WHEN

4 3 Talking about the past If the action occurred in the______ and the there is no definite beginning or ending use the __________________. Las chicas hablaban en inglés. The girls used to speak in English (no definite beginning or end) IMPERFECTO (imperfect) PAST

5  The _________________ (past) tense is like a SNAPSHOT of what happened in the past.  The _________________ (past) tense is like an ongoing film of what happened in the past. PRETERITE IMPERFECT

6 El imperfecto  The peterite tells us _____________when an action took place.  The imperfect tells us in ________________. specifically general

7 6 FORMATION OF IMPERFECT To conjugate regular – ar verbs in the imperfect 1. Drop the infinitive ending 2. Add “ aba ” abaábamos abasabais abaaban

8 7 (-ar verbs) tomaba tomabas tomaba tomábamos tomabais tomaban Por ejemplo: tomar

9 8 (-ar verbs) trabaj Por ejemplo: trabajar aba abas aba ábamos abais aban

10 To conjugate regular –er/-ir verbs in the imperfect 1. Drop the infinitive ending 2. Add “ía” íaíamos íasíais íaían

11 (-er / -ir verbs) comía comías comía comíamos comíais comían Por ejemplo: comer

12 11 (-er/-ir verbs) viv Por ejemplo: ía ías ía íamos íais ían

13 12 LOS IRREGULARES: There are only _________ irregular verbs in the imperfect. 1.ser=______________2. ir=_____________ veíaveíamos veíasveíais veíaveían EraÉramos ErasErais EraEran IbaÍbamos IbasIbais Ibaiban 3 Used to be/wasUsed to go/was going 3. ver= used to see/was seeing

14 Some words and phrases indicate repetitive, vague or non-specific time frames, and therefore signal the use of the imperfect.  a menudo (often)  a veces (sometimes)  cada día (every day)  cada semana (every week)  cada mes (every month)  cada año (every year)  con frecuencia (frequently)  de vez en cuando (from time to time)  en aquella época (at that time)  frecuentemente (frequently)  generalmente (usually)  muchas veces (many times)  mucho (a lot)  nunca (never)  por un rato (for awhile)  siempre (always)  tantas veces (so many times)  todas las semanas (every week)  todos los días (every day)  todo el tiempo (all the time)  varias veces (several times)

15 Practiquemos  http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC /pret_imp.php http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC /pret_imp.php 14