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Title: The Preterite of Regular ER/IR Class Verbs


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The Preterite of RegularER/IR Class Verbs
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  • 1. The rules for the preterite of regular AR
    class verbs apply to the ER/IR Class verbs.

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  • 2. To form the preterite of this class of verbs,
    you add the correct ER/IR preterite ending to the
    stem of the infinitive.
  • stem regular preterite ER/IR ending

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  • 3. The preterite endings for ER/IR class verbs
    are
  • yo- í nosotros(as)- imos
  • tú- iste ustedes- ieron
  • Ud., él, ella- ió ellos(as)- ieron

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  • Example Escribir (to write)
  • Yo escribí
  • Tú escribiste
  • Ella escribió
  • Nosotros escribimos
  • Ellos escribieron

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  • 4. For ER class verbs, the Preterite is NOT the
    same for the nosotros form as it is with the
    Present.
  • ex. comemos (present tense)
  • comimos (preterite tense)

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  • 5. For IR Class verbs, the nosotros form is
    the same as it is for the Present Tense.
  • Ex. subimos (present)
  • subimos (preterite)

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  • 6. Spelling changes
  • a. for any verb whose stem ends in a vowel, ió
    and ieron change to yó and yeron.
  • Example creer- to think/believe
  • yo creí
  • tú creíste
  • él creyó
  • nosotros creímos
  • ellos creyeron
  • Other verbs like this are oír (hear), leer (read)
  • caer (fall)

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  • b. The tú and nosotros forms also require
  • a written accent for these four verbs.
  • creíste oíste leíste caíste
  • creímos oímos leímos caímos

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7. The verb DAR (to give)
Though the verb dar is an AR class verb, it is
conjugated as an ER/IR verb In the preterite
tense.
Yo di
Nosotros dimos
Tú diste
Ustedes, ellos, ellas dieron
Usted, él, ella dio
Los muchachos dieron una caminata.
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