HISP 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: El Brazo, Preterite, Regulares

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Hispanic Studies
• Course: HISP 1110
• Professor: Nanita Mohan

Document Summary

Preterite of regular verbs (el preterito de los verbos regulares) Spanish has 2 past tenses: preterite and imperfect. For preterite regular verbs, the ending form is as follows: Ar verbs (tomar: to take) tome tomaste tomo tomamos tomasteis tomaron. Er verbs (comer: to eat) comi comiste comio comimos comisteis comieron. Ir verbs (escribir: to write) escribi ecribiste escribio escribimos escribisteis escribieron. Verbs ending in ar and er that are stem changing in the present indicative are regular in the preterite: Ex: encontrar ----- tu encuentras ----- tu encontraste. Verbs ending in gar, car, and zar change g to gu, c to qu and z to c before e in the first person of the preterite. Verbs whose stem ends in a strong vowel (a,e,o) change to the unnacented i of the preterite ending to y in the third-person singular and plural of the preterite: The preterite tense refers to actions or events that the speaker views as completed in the.