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El pretérito. The preterite is one of the 2 past tenses in Spanish. It is used to talk about completed actions. It is used to narrate past events.

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Presentación del tema: "El pretérito. The preterite is one of the 2 past tenses in Spanish. It is used to talk about completed actions. It is used to narrate past events."— Transcripción de la presentación:

1 El pretérito

2 The preterite is one of the 2 past tenses in Spanish. It is used to talk about completed actions. It is used to narrate past events.

3 Key words ayeryesterday anochelast night la semana pasadalast week el mes pasadolast month el año pasadolast year el verano pasadolast summer

4 Los verbos -ar To form the preterite follow these steps: Take off the –ar Add the correct ending

5 Las terminaciones (yo)é (tú)aste (él/ella)ó (nosotros)amos (ellos/ellas)aron The nosotros forms are the same in the present and preterite. To figure out the tense, you must look at the context clues in the sentence.

6 hablar- to speak hablé (I spoke) hablaste (you spoke) habló (He/she spoke) hablamos (we spoke) hablaron (They/you all spoke)

7 There are no stem-changes with –ar verbs in the preterite. There are spelling changes that are needed for pronunciation.

8 Spelling changes Verbs that end in –car change the c to a qu in the yo form sacar → saqué

9 Verbs that end in –gar change the g to a gu in the yo form jugar → jugué

10 Verbs that end in –zar change the z to a c in the yo form empezar → empecé


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