The Preterite Tense

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Spanish Vocabulary Project

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University of California, Davis

Spanish Vocabulary Project

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Curso 5 de 5 em Specialization Learn Spanish: Basic Spanish Vocabulary

In this course, we'll imagine that you are applying for an all-expenses paid, educational trip to a Spanish-speaking nation of your choice. You'll introduce yourself to a host family that you'll be staying with, research the rich culture and history of the place you intend to visit and compare it with your own country, and plan out an itinerary of places you plan to see, and things you plan to do and experience while visiting. In addition, you'll summarize the key points of your written report in an oral presentation. This course is challenging and is meant to test everything you've learned in the Spanish Vocabulary specialization. It will provide you an excellent way in which to test what you know and what you still need to work on in your Spanish learning journey.

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Milestone 2: Culture and History of Your Selected Nation (Research and 1st Draft)

For the 2nd milestone in our course project, you are going to research the history and culture of your selected host nation. Search the internet, preferably relying on Spanish-language websites from that country, to determine things like the current and historical political systems, common foods, entertainment, music, arts, traditions, important historical milestones, etc. You'll also be asked to compare what you learn about your host nation with the country or region in which you presently reside to note similarities and differences. In this module, you'll hand in a draft of your report for feedback and review from a peer before you turn in your final draft in the next module.

Adverbs that Go Together with Past Events1:12

The Preterite Tense3:30

The Contrast Between the Imperfect and the Preterite Tenses2:27

Two Ways of Expressing Events from the Recent Past2:42

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Dr. Robert Blake
Professor & Director
UC Consortium for Lanuage Learning & Teaching (UCCLLT)

The preterite tense.

Completely finished actions are expressed with the preterite tense,

which is remarkably regular in Spanish for most -ar, -er and -ir verbs.

Whether or not those verbs had irregularities in the present tense.

Take notice of the accented final vowels for the first and third person singular forms.

That's how Spanish speakers signal that the action has already taken place.

Listen for these stressed final vowels.

Occasionally, the first person needs to be written with

minor spelling changes in order to maintain the original pronunciation of the verb.

For instance, the verb organizar,

which is written with a z, z-a-r.

In the first person is organice,

written with a c. The verb recargar in the first person is recargue,

written with a g-u-e.

The verb identificar, in the first person is identifique but written with q-u-e.

This only affects the writing,

clearly the pronunciation is totally regular.

Now let's take a look at the first chart which gives us

the ar preterite verb endings with the verb hablar.

First person, second person, third person,

singular and plural.

Habl-e, Habl-aste, habl-o.

Habl-amos, habl-asteis, habl-aron. Notice, first of all,

that in the first and the third person,

you have an accent mark put on that final vowel.

So hable, hablo.

And also notice that hablamos is exactly the same form as the present.

How do you know the difference?

Context. Now let's go and look at the -er and the -ir verbs.

For the verb comer and the verb abrir.

Com-i, com-iste, com-io.

Com-imos, com-isteis, com-ieron.

For abrir: abr-i, abr-iste, abr-io.

Abr-imos, abr-isteis, abr-ieron.

Again notice with the nosotros form for

the -ir verb abrimos is exactly the same as the present tense.

Context will tell you.

Now let's look at some examples.

Reserve una habitacion en el hotel.

I reserved a room in the hotel.

Again, notice that the stress and the written accent mark is going on that last,

final vowel a reserve.

Recorri las ciudades de Europa el verano pasado.

I went all around the cities of Europe last summer.

Nos emitieron los billetes por email.

They sent us the tickets via email.

Manejaste un coche en inglaterra?

Did you drive a car in England?

Visitamos los monumentos historicos.

We visited all of the historical monuments.

How do you know that visitamos is the preterite? The context.

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