~The Imperfect Tense~

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El Imperfecto

• The Imperfect Tense

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2 Main Past Tenses in Spanish

• In Spanish, there are 2 main tenses used to talk
  in the past
• 1. El Pretérito
• 2. El Imperfecto

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El Pretérito

• Specific actions in the past (you can prove
  it).I arrived at 300 yesterday. (It happened
  and I can prove it. check the flight records at
  300 yesterday!)llegué a las tres ayer.Lisa
  studied from 200-500 yesterday.Lisa estudió de
  las dos hasta las cinco ayer.

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El Imperfecto

• Imperfect is more general NOT specificI used to
  dance. (No real proof that I actually
  danced)Bailaba

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El Imperfecto

• As a child, I used to always play soccer.
• My family and I used to vacation in Hawaii every
  Summer.
• I was very shy as a kid.

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Conjugation Endings

• Drop the Ending (AR, ER, IR)
• Add
• For AR Verbs
• aba abas aba ábamos (Note the accent
  mark) aban

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Conjugation Endings

• For ER and IR Verbs
• íaíasíaíamosían
• NOTE All of the endings have an accent on the
  i

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Irregular Verbs

• There are only 3 irregular verbs!!!
• ser era eras era éramos eran

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• ir iba ibas iba íbamos iban

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Preterit ar verbs

• é amos
• aste
• ó aron

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Preterit er/ir verbs

• í imos
• iste
• ió ieron

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Preterit Irregulars
Decir Dij
Querer Quis
Hacer Hic
Tener que Tuv que
Poder Pud
Poner pus

• dij

e imos
iste  
o ieron
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Preterit Irregulars
car, gar, zar
1. yo form only!!! 2. Remove the car, gar, zar Add car qué gar gué zar cé  
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Preterit Irregulars
Dar to give ver to see
 Both dar and ver conjugate the same.   dar to give Both use er/ir endings with NO accents.
di (I gave) dimos (we gave)
diste (you gave)  
dio (he/she gave) You (formal) gave dieron (they gave) (you guys gave)  
vi (I saw) vimos (we saw)
viste (you saw)  
vio (he/she saw) You (formal) saw vieron (they saw) (you guys saw)
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Use the Impefect

• to refer to actions in the past that
  occurred repeatedly.I used to walk every day.Yo
  caminaba cada día.I studied at 300 every
  day.Estudiaba a las tres cada día.
• We would eat watermelon every summer.
• Comíamos sandía todos
• los veranos.

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Use the Impefect To

• To Tell Time in The Past
• And
• To Tell Sombodys Age
• In The Past

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Imperfect Tense

• DESCRIPTION is usually imperfect tense!She was
  tall. era alta. They were funny.eran cómicos

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Preterit Tense

• Even actions that occurred 5 times, if they all
  finished it is preterit tense
• I ate five times yesterday.Comí cinco veces
  ayer.