Regular Preterite conjugations
Conjugate llegar for yo in the preterite.
Answer: llegué
What is the yo form of tener in the preterite?
Answer: tuve
Translate: the corner
Answer: la esquina
Yesterday, I crossed the street.
Answer:
Ayer, crucé la calle.
What are the regular preterite endings for -AR verbs?
Answer:
-é, -aste, -ó, -amos, -asteis, -aron
Conjugate cruzar for nosotros/as in the preterite.
Answer: cruzamos
What is the ellos/ellas/ustedes form of andar in the preterite?
Answer: anduvieron
Translate: traffic light
Answer: el semáforo
We waited for the bus at the bus stop.
Answer:
Esperamos el bus en la parada de bus.
What are the regular preterite endings for -ER/-IR verbs?
Answer:
-í, -iste, -ió, -imos, -isteis, -ieron
Conjugate esperar for ellos/ellas/ustedes in the preterite.
Answer: esperaron
Conjugate tener for nosotros/as in the preterite.
Answer: tuvimos
Translate: To commemorate
Answer: Conmemorar
She turned left at the corner and continued straight.
Answer:
Ella dobló a la izquierda en la esquina y siguió derecho/directo.
What happens to -CAR, -GAR, and -ZAR verbs in the yo form of the preterite? Give an example from this unit.
Answer:
The spelling changes in the yo form.
Conjugate manejar for vosotros/as in the preterite.
Answer: manejasteis
Seguir is a preterite stem-changing verb. What is the él/ella/usted form?
Answer: siguió
Translate: Hardware store
Answer: la ferretería
They arrived at the intersection and crossed the street.
Answer:
Llegaron al cruce de calles y cruzaron la calle.
Preterite stem changes e → i and o → u occur with what type of verbs? In which forms do they occur?
Answer:
They occur with -IR verbs and only in the third-person forms: él/ella/usted and ellos/ellas/ustedes.
Conjugate atravesar for all six subject pronouns in the preterite.
Answer: yo atravesé; tú atravesaste; él/ella/usted atravesó; nosotros/as atravesamos; vosotros/as atravesasteis; ellos/ellas/ustedes atravesaron
Conjugate seguir for ellos/ellas/ustedes in the preterite and identify the stem change.
Answer: siguieron; e → i
Translate: to withdraw/get money from the ATM
Answer: sacar dinero del cajero automático
Yesterday, we drove to the center, parked near the cathedral, and walked to the plaza.
Answer:
Ayer, manejamos al centro, paramos cerca de la catedral y fuimos a pie a la plaza.
Look at these two verbs: cruzar → crucé and seguir → siguió. Explain why each verb changes in the preterite.
Answer:
cruzar → crucé: -ZAR changes to -C- in the yo form.
seguir → siguió: It is an -IR stem-changing verb, so e → i in the third-person singular.