EL PRETÉRITO THE PRETERITE (PAST) TENSE. What is the preterite used for? The preterite is used for actions in the past that are seen as completed. The.

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1 EL PRETÉRITO THE PRETERITE (PAST) TENSE

2 What is the preterite used for? The preterite is used for actions in the past that are seen as completed. The use of the preterite tense implies that the past action had a definite beginning and definite end The preterite also tells us specifically when an action took place.

3 Examples of the preterite tense: Carlos bought a CD María ate a hamburger On Friday Jorge went to the swimming pool

4 Regular verbs

5 Conjugating regular ‘ar’ verbs: To conjugate regular -ar verbs in the preterite, simply drop the -ar and add the following endings: yoé túaste él/ellaó nosotrosamos vosotrosasteis ellos/ellasaron

6 Example of regular ‘ar’ verb hablar – to talk Take the ‘ar’ off the infinitive and this leaves your stem ‘habl’ yohablé túhablaste él/ella/ustedhabló nosotroshablamos vosotroshablasteis ellos/ellas/ustedeshablaron

7 Conjugating regular ‘er’ and ‘ir’ verbs To conjugate regular -er and -ir verbs in the preterite, simply drop the -er or –ir and add the following endings: yoí túiste él/ella/ustedió nosotrosimos vosotrosisteis ellos/ellas/ustedesieron

8 Example of regular ‘er’ verb comer – to eat Take the ‘er’ off the infinitive and this leaves your stem ‘com’ yocomí túcomiste él/ella/ustedcomió nosotroscomimos vosotroscomisteis ellos/ellas/ustedescomieron

9 Example of regular ‘ir’ verb vivir – to live Take the ‘ir’ off the infinitive and this leaves your stem ‘viv’ yoviví túviviste él/ella/ustedvivió nosotrosvivimos vosotrosvivisteis ellos/ellas/ustedesvivieron

10 Irregular verbs

11 Irregular verbs that don’t follow a rule and need to be learned: Ser Ir Hacer Decir Ver Traer

12 Ser – to be yofui túfuiste él/ella/ustedfue nosotrosfuimos vosotrosfuisteis ellos/ellas/ustedesfueron

13 Ir – to go yofui túfuiste él/ella/ustedfue nosotrosfuimos vosotrosfuisteis ellos/ellas/ustedesfueron

14 Hacer – to do yohice túhiciste él/ella/ustedhizo nosotroshicimos vosotroshicisteis ellos/ellas/ustedeshicieron

15 Decir – to say yodije túdijiste él/ella/usteddijo nosotrosdijimos vosotrosdijisteis ellos/ellas/ustedesdijeron

16 Ver – to see yovi túviste él/ella/ustedvio nosotrosvimos vosotrosvisteis ellos/ellas/ustedesvieron

17 Traer – to bring yotraje tútrajiste él/ella/ustedtrajo nosotrostrajimos vosotrostrajisteis ellos/ellas/ustedestrajeron