![]() Notes on preterite with irregular verbs.= You all (Spain) decided to leave by car.The Spanish Preterite tense with regular verbs = We (all girls) received the letter on Saturday. Nosotras recibimos la carta el sábado.I'm going to write a few sentences using other -ER/-IR verbs but using the same endings to show you really how simple it is: Ustedes/ellos(as) escribieron = you all (everywhere else)/they wrote Vosotros(as) escribisteis = you all (Spain) wrote Nosotros(as) escribimos = we wrote (notice that this is the same conjugation as the present tense "we write" so context is everything when speaking. Él/ella/usted escribió =he/she/you (formal) wrote Now let's conjugate our same -IR verb we used above in the preterite tense: Ustedes/ellos(as) comieron = you all (everywhere else)/they ate Vosotros(as) comisteis = you all (Spain) ate Él/ella/usted comió = he/she/you(formal) ate We are lucky, because -ER/-IR verb endings are the same in the preterite tense: -í, iste, -ió, -imos, -isteis, -ieron. Let's take our same -ER verb we used in our present tense example, and conjugate it in the preterite tense.įirst we need to know what the -ER/-IR verb endings are for preterite tense. Now, let's get back to the topic of the day: -ER/-IR preterite tense conjugation. All other part of the Spanish-speaking world would just use "ustedes" all of the time.) (Note: Spain does use "ustedes" but only for formality, otherwise they use "vosotros". Vosotros(as) caminasteis = you all (Spain) walkedĮllos(as)/ustedes caminaron = they/you all (everywhere else) walked. Él/ella/usted caminó = he/she/you (formal) walked Now the endings for preterite tense -AR verbs are the following: -é, -aste, -ó, -amos (same as present tense), -asteis, -aron Let's use the verb caminar which means "to walk" In my last lesson, we learned how to conjugate -AR verbs in the past simple (preterite) tense, so I will review the endings of the -AR verbs quickly with you. Now that we know how to conjugate both regular -ER/-IR verbs in the present tense, we can go ahead and do the same but using the preterite (past simple) tense. There are irregular verbs which we will talk about later. This formula works with any regular -ER/-IR verbs (using their respective endings). Ustedes/ellos(as) = you all (everywhere else)/they write Vosotros(as) escribís = you all (Spain) write Él/ella/usted escribe = he/she/you (formal)write Notice how -emos and -éis from -ER verbs are now -imos and -ís for -IR verbs. Ustedes/ellos(as) comen = you all (everywhere else)/they eatįor -IR verbs only the nosotros and vosotros forms change from the -ER endings.Įxample verb: escribir which means "to write".Īgain, take off the -IR ending and replace it with our -IR endings which are -o, -es, -e, - imos, ís, -en. Vosotros(as) coméis = you all (Spain) eat Él/ella/usted come = he/she/you (formal) eat These are the present tense endings for -ER verbs: -o, -es, -e, -emos, -éis, -en.įor example, the verb comer means to eat. Remember that in the present tense we would take of the -ER or -IR ending and replace it with any of our endings for their respective subject or subject pronouns. In the preterite (simple past) form, they are conjugated the same. AR verbs act alone in conjugations but -ER and -IR verbs are conjugated the same in the present tense except for the nosotros and vosotros form. Now, you might be familiar that there are three different endings that verbs in Spanish use: -AR, -ER, and -IR verbs. ![]() We are focusing more on just simple past tense actions that have happened and they are done with. In Spanish we would use the imperfect tense for that which will be in another lesson. We might say "I was eating a cheeseburger" (and then something else happened). The preterite tense in Spanish is used to tell simple past tense actions such as "I walked" or "You fell down." There is another past tense in Spanish called the Imperfect Tense, which would be more for actions that were happening or actions that people used to do. This lesson is the sister of my last Spanish lesson which was "How to Use Simple Past Tense (Preterite) For AR Verbs in Spanish which can be found here: In this lesson I will teach how to conjugate and use the preterite tense for the three different verb endings:- AR/-ER/-IR verbs.
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