1 The abas and the ías El Imperfecto de Los Verbos: Another form of the past tense.
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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PRETERITE (pretréito)
PASTWHEN
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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)
IMPERFECTO (imperfect)
PAST
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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.
PRETERITE
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 IMPERFECTTo conjugate regular –ar verbs in the imperfect1. Drop the infinitive ending2. Add “aba”
aba ábamosabas abaisaba aban
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(-ar verbs)trabajtrabajtrabaj
trabajtrabajtrabaj
Por ejemplo:
trabajar
abaabasaba
ábamosabaisaban
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To conjugate regular –er/-ir verbs in the imperfect1. Drop the infinitive ending2. Add “ía”
ía íamos
ías íaisía ían
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(-er / -ir verbs)
comíacomíascomía
comíamoscomíaiscomían
Por ejemplo:
comer
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(-er/-ir verbs)vivvivviv
vivvivviv
Por ejemplo:
íaíasía
íamosíaisían
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LOS IRREGULARES: There are only _________ irregular verbs in the imperfect.
1. ser=______________ 2. ir=_____________
veía veíamosveías veíaisveía veían
Era ÉramosEras EraisEra eran
Iba ÍbamosIbas IbaisIba iban
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Used to be/was
Used to go/was going
3. ver= used to see/was seeing
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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)