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Indicative – Preterit in Spanish
The Preterit is generally used to express completed actions, facts or universal truths happened in the past. Generally, at a specific time or date.
(See comparison between PRETERIT and IMPERFECT here)
Examples:
- La empresa fabricó 10000 unidades el mes pasado (The company manufactured 10,000 units last month)
- La película empezó a las 9 de la noche (The movie started at 9pm)
- De repente, ella cambió de opinión (Suddenly, she changed her mind)
- En verdad, ellos llegaron más temprano hoy (In fact, they came earlier today)
- El estudiante compró un teléfono inteligente ayer (The student bought a smart phone yesterday)
- ¿Llegaste tarde ayer? (Did you come late yesterday?)
- Maria inició sus clases el lunes pasado (Maria started her classes last Monday)
- El niño nació el 20 de agosto (The baby was born in August 20)
- Él trabajó 12 horas el martes (He worked 12 hours on Tuesday)
- No dormí bien anoche (I didn’t sleep well last night)
The Preterit conjugation of model regular verbs (ar, er, ir) is:
| Amar | Correr | |
| Yo | amé | corrí |
| tú | amaste | corriste |
| usted, él, ella | amó | corrió |
| nosotros o nosotras | amamos | corrimos |
| vosotros o vosotras | amastéis | corristeis |
| ustedes, ellos, ellas | amaron | corrieron |
| Partir | |
| Yo | partí |
| tú | partiste |
| usted, él, ella | partió |
| nosotros o nosotras | partimos |
| vosotros o vosotras | partisteis |
| ustedes, ellos, ellas | partieron |
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