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Title: El Imperfecto de los verbos


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El Imperfectode los verbos
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Talking about the past
  • There are ____ past tenses in Spanish.
  • If the action occurred in the______ and the
    speaker can tell precisely _____ the action
    occurred use the __________________.

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PAST
WHEN
PRETERITE (pretréito)
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Talking about the past
  • If the action occurred in the______ and the there
    is no definite beginning or ending use the
    __________________.
  • Las chicas hablaban en inglés. The girls used to
    speak in English (no definite beginning or end)

PAST
IMPERFECTO (imperfect)
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PRETERITE
  • The _________________ (past) tense is like a
    SNAPSHOT of what happened in the past.
  • The _________________ (past) tense is like an
    ongoing film of what happened in the past.

IMPERFECT
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El imperfecto
  • The peterite tells us _____________when an action
    took place.
  • The imperfect tells us in ________________.

specifically
general
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FORMATION OF IMPERFECT To conjugate regular ar
verbs in the imperfect 1. Drop the infinitive
ending 2. Add aba
aba ábamos
abas abais
aba aban
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(-ar verbs)
Por ejemplo
aba abas aba
  • trabaj
  • trabaj
  • trabaj
  • trabaj
  • trabaj
  • trabaj

ábamos abais aban
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To conjugate regular er/-ir verbs in the
imperfect 1. Drop the infinitive ending 2. Add
ía
ía íamos
ías íais
ía ían
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(-er / -ir verbs)
Por ejemplo
  • comía
  • comías
  • comía
  • comíamos
  • comíais
  • comían

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(-er/-ir verbs)
Por ejemplo
ía ías ía
  • viv
  • viv
  • viv
  • viv
  • viv
  • viv

íamos íais ían
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  • LOS IRREGULARES There are only _________
    irregular verbs
  • in the imperfect.
  • ser______________ 2. ir_____________

Used to be/was
Used to go/was going
Iba Íbamos
Ibas Ibais
Iba iban
Era Éramos
Eras Erais
Era eran
3. ver used to see/was seeing
veía veíamos
veías veíais
veía veían
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Some words and phrases indicate repetitive, vague
or non-specific time frames, and therefore signal
the use of the imperfect.
  • a menudo (often)
  • a veces (sometimes)
  • cada día (every day)
  • cada semana (every week)
  • cada mes (every month)
  • cada año (every year)
  • con frecuencia (frequently)
  • de vez en cuando (from time to time)
  • en aquella época (at that time)
  • frecuentemente (frequently)
  • generalmente (usually)
  • muchas veces (many times)
  • mucho (a lot)
  • nunca (never)
  • por un rato (for awhile)
  • siempre (always)
  • tantas veces (so many times)
  • todas las semanas (every week)
  • todos los días (every day)
  • todo el tiempo (all the time)
  • varias veces (several times)
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