In dealing with Spanish Past Tenses, there’s one trick you may want to remember: time markers are a very useful tool for giving you information about what tense you should use. Here you can find a summary for the past: (Indefinido) (Imperfecto) (Pretérito Perfecto) (Pluscuamperfecto) ayer el año pasado la semana pasada en el año… de […]
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Pretérito Perfecto Now it gets easier. When it comes to Pretérito Perfecto, there are only a couple of contexts. Current Time Unit This means that something happened in the past (finished or not) and the person who is speaking is still in the same time unit in which it happened. It’s very important to remember here […]
Read morePretérito Indefinido & Imperfecto – Spanish Past Tenses
The difference between Indefinido and Imperfecto is probably your main struggle when using the past tense. Below are some examples of contrast situations: Finished & Concrete Action vs. Durative Action This is the most “grammatical” case. Examples: Mi amigo vivía en Panamá vs. Mi amigo vivió en Panamá. Actually, both cases provide the same information: I have a […]
Read moreSome things you have to know – Spanish Past Tenses
I know it’s hard. I know that you think the Spanish past tense makes no sense at all. But maybe it’s just that you are looking at it the wrong way. Past tense in Spanish is, undoubtedly, a hard grammar topic to master. We have four different ones. They don’t correlate to other languages like […]
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