![]() Verbs with two vowels in their ending: verbs like “ leer, oír, concluir, incluir, constituir, construir, disminuir, fluir, poseer, caer, huir” suffer a spelling change for the pronouns YO, ÉL and ELLOS.There are many other irregular verbs and special cases in the past tense in Spanish besides the above-mentioned.: Other special cases in the preterite in Spanish SER: Yo fui, tú fuiste, él fue, nosotros fuimos, vosotros fuisteis, ellos fueron. Keep two things in mind first, the endings used for –ER and –IR verbs like COMER and ABRIR are identical, and second, the conjugations for the pronouns YO, ÉL, ELLA and USTED in the preterite tense will always use a tilde over the last vowel for regular verbs. Know that you will also find irregular verbs in the past tense.Īs you can see in the chart below, the stem of regular verbs in the past tense in Spanish will not change at all for most verbs, only their ending. Verbs in the preterite tense in Spanish will change just the same way verbs in the present tense do, depending on the subject of the sentence. Just like in English, the preterite or past tense will be used for actions that happened at some time in the past and have already finished. ![]() We can refer to the past tense in Spanish as “ El pretérito perfecto simple”, “El pretérito indefinido” or simply as “El pasado simple”. Let’s start The past tense of regular verbs in Spanish As usual, you will find simple explanations, many examples of sentences and interactive quizzes to test yourself. ![]() In this lesson, we will learn the basic rules to conjugate both regular and irregular verbs in the preterite tense in Spanish properly. In everyday interactions, it is very common to find ourselves talking about past events in Spanish, things that happened recently or a long time ago.
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