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The preterite tense is the past tense – we use it to say what we did.
a) I listened escuché
a) Comí I ate
b) I drank bebí
b) Visité I visited
c) I met conocí
c) Compré I bought
d) Escuché I listened d) I wrote escribí
e) Salí I went out e) I relaxed descansé
f) Bebí I drank f) I went out salí
g) Hablé I spoke g) I ate comí
h) Jugué I played h) I played jugué
i) Escribí I wrote i) I visited visité
j) Conocí I met j) I bought compré
k) Nadé I swam k) I spoke hablé
l) Descansé I relaxed l) I swam Nadé
What do all these verbs have in common? Can you think of 2 things? These are the 2 I look for but they often come up
with different thing!
a) All end in either E or I
b) All have an accent on the last letter
3. Don’t forget there are a few irregular verbs – verbs that don’t necessarily follow the pattern.
a) Fui al cine con mis amigos. I went to the cinema with my friends
f) Ayer hice gimnasia con mi hermana. Yesterday I did gymnastics with my sister
f) Nadé en la piscina.