Monday, November 8, 2010

Preterit vs. Imperfect

Preterit vs. Imperfect

We started off the semester by learning how to use the preterit and imperfect tenses. These are two of the past tenses in Spanish. You use the preterit tense when you are talking about something that has a specific time that it happened. You use the imperfect tense when you are talking about something that used to happen. Below are conjugation charts for both (first) the preterit tense as well as (second) the imperfect tense.

Palabra-

Hablar

Yo

Hablé

Hablaste

Él/Ella/Usted

Habló

Nosotros/Nosotras

Hablamos

Ellos/Ellas/Ustedes

Hablaron

.

Palabra-

Hablar

Yo

Hablaba

Hablabas

Él/Ella/Usted

Hablaba

Nosotros/Nosotras

Hablabamos

Ellos/Ellas/Ustedes

Hablaban

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