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Spanish Verbs: Past Tense
Regular -AR Verbs
Model Question and Answer: Supply the past tense (el pretérito) of the verb in parentheses. Q: Yo (comer) ayer. |
Useful Grammar For This Quiz
The past tense (el pretérito) in Spanish corresponds exactly to the simple past tense in English; thus it is used to describe any completed* action or event in the past.
Yo hablé (I spoke)
Él comió (he ate)
Ellos vendieron (they sold)
Verbs of the first conjugation (i.e., those ending in -ar are conjugated in the following manner:
| See: | hablar | (After the window launches choose - Preterit) |
(See, and the choose "Preterit").
* Just as in English, for a continuing past action, a second past tense is used, the so-called imperfect past tense (el imperfecto). This will be studied in a later exercise.
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Regular -ER & -IR Verbs
Model Question and Answer: Supply the past tense (el pretérito) of the verbs in parentheses. Q: Yo (escribir) una carta ayer. |
Useful Grammar For This Quiz
The past tense of verbs of the second and third conjugations (i.e., the verbs terminating in -er and -ir is conjugated as follows:
| See: | comer | (After the window launches choose - Preterit) |
| See: | vivir | (After the window launches choose - Preterit) |
