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Preterite

The preterite is the past tense, basically. There are some other forms of the past tense, but the preterite is the first and simpilest of them. The preterite is used when speaking of thing occuring once in the past. It isn't used when you are referring to something that happend over a period of time in the past. That is another part of speach. The conjugation of the preterite is this:

-ar Verbs
	Singular	Plural
First	-é	-amos
Second	-aste
Third	-ó	-aron

-er Verbs
	Singular	Plural
First	-í	-imos
Second	-iste
Third	-ió	-ieron

-ir Verbs
	Singular	Plural
First	-í	-imos
Second	-iste
Third	-ió	-ieron

hablar - to speak
	Singular	Plural
First	hablé	hablamos
Second	hablaste
Third	habló	hablaron

comer - to eat
	Singular	Plural
First	comí	comimos
Second	comiste
Third	comió	comieron

viver - to live
	Singular	Plural
First	viví	vivimos
Second	viviste
Third	vivió	vivieron

This should help you with you conjugations of the spanish preterite. However, here are a few example to help you.

I listened to the music
- to listen => escuchar
- I listented => escuché
- to => a
- the music => la música
- Escuché a la musica
She wrote the book
- She => Ella
- she wrote => escribió
- the book => el libro
- Ella escribió el libro

If you have any questions about the preterite, please mail me at jholder@descartes.coker.edu with the subject "e; Preterite "e;.

Preterite

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