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Preterite Verb Review For REGULAR preterite verbs, their
conjugations are the following:
-AR VERBS -ER/-IR VERBS
yo - nosotros/as -amos yo - nosotros/as -imos
t -aste t -iste
Ud/l/ella - Uds./ellos/as -aron Ud/l/ella -i Uds./ellos/as
-ieron
Unfortunately, there are a ridiculous amount
ofirregularpreterite verbs in Spanish. -car/-gar/-zar verbs
o for thesear verbs, there is a change made in the yo form only
due to the soft vowel sound of e. -car qu / yo busqu (buscar) -gar
gu / yo pagu (pagar) -zar c / yo empec (empezar)
the reasoning behind thezar is that the letter z does not exist
in front of e in Spanish, sincec makes the same sound as z, we
change it to c
-y/-yeron verbso for these verbs, we replace the i sound with a
written y
le lemos cre cremos o omos destru destruimosleste creste oste
destruiste
ley leyeron crey creyeron oy oyeron destruy destruyeron
o note that the nosotros & t forms of destruir do not carry
an accento similar verbs: caer, poseer, construir, concluir,
incluir, huir, contribuir (theuir verbs do not carry an accent
in the t & nosotros form, as seen in destruir above)
sandal verbso ir stem changing verbs also stem change in the
preterite tense, however it is a little differento note: -ar/-er
stem changing verbs in the present DO NOT change in the preteriteo
the verbs only change in the l/ella/Ud. and the ellos/as/Uds. form,
hence the name sandal verbo the stem change is different though in
the preterite
oue changes to o u eie changes to e i e i stays the same
o ejemplos:dormir preferir
yo dorm nosotros/as dormimos yo prefer nosotros/as
preferimos
t dormste t preferiste
l/ella/Ud. durmi ellos/as/Uds. durmieron l/ella/Ud. prefiri
ellos/as/Uds. prefirieron
ser/ir identical twinso ser and ir conjugate the same in the
preterite, note there are no accents
fui fuimos
fuiste
fue fueron
dar/ver fraternal twinso dar and ver are similarly conjugated,
note there are no accents
di dimos vi vimos
diste viste
dio dieron vio vieron
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Preterite Verb Review
irregular stem changerso some preterite verbs change their stems
completely in the preterite tenseo these verbs do not carry an
accent in any of their forms
infinitive raz irregular
andar anduv-estar estuv-
poder pud-
poner pus-
querer quis-
saber sup-
tener tuv-
venir vin-
o The endings for all of the verbs are the same-e -imos
-iste-o -ieron
o ejemplosanduve anduvimos pude pudimos vine vinimos
anduviste pudiste viniste
anduvo anduvieron pudo pudieron vino vinieron
irregular irregular stem changerso as if it couldnt get any
crazier, there are some exceptions to the execptiono decir, traer,
producir, conducer, traducir
these are also stem changers decir dij- traer traj- producir
produj- conducir conduj- traducir traduj
however, in the ellos/as/Uds. form, these verbs drop the i, and
useeron as their endingdije dijimos traje trajimos
dijiste trajiste
dijo dijeron trajo trajeron
o hacer hacer hic-
the excpetion is in the l/ella/Ud. form: hiz-hice hicimos
hiciste
hizo hicieron
