Preterite Regular
Preterite Irregular
Imperfect Tense
Comparisons
Childhood Vocabulary
100
The endings -ar verb endings in the preterite tense.
What is é, aste, ó, amos, asteis, & aron?
100
The stem of dar in the preterite tense.
What is di?
100
The six conjugations of tener in the imperfect tense.
What are "tenía, tenías, tenía, teníamos, teníais, tenían"?
100
The way to say something is more or less something than something else.
What is más/menos ____ que?
100
Good/Bad mannered in Spanish.
What is bien/mal educado?
200
When the preterite tense is used.
What tense is used for one time actions, completed actions, interrupting actions, and special verbs?
200
The third person plural form of traer in the preterite.
What is trajeron?
200
The imperfect tense has verbs with stem changes that are not irregular. (True or False)
What is false?
200
The way to say something is equally something as something else.
What is tan ____ como?
200
Two ways of saying "to play tag" in Spanish.
What are "jugar al pilla-pilla" or "jugar a la mancha" in english?
300
The type(s) of infinitive verbs which stem-change in the preterite (-er, -ir, and/or -ar verbs).
What are -ir verbs?
300
The two verbs which have the same conjugations in the preterite tense.
What are ser and ir?
300
The Spanish word for "there was."
What is "había"?
300
"The newest television" in spanish.
What is "la televisión más nuevo" in english?
300
Two ways to say, "as a child" in Spanish
What are "de niño" and "de pequeño" in english?
400
The i becomes a y in these conjugations of verbs whose stem ends like this.
What happens to -er and -ir infinitives whose stem ends in a vowel when conjugated in the third person preterite?
400
Spanish for "to find out" in the preterite tense.
What is saber?
400
Three out of the six situations and/or reasons that the irregular tense is used for.
What is describing what something was, what time/age/weather it was, continuous actions, old habits, to keep the meaning of special preterite verbs, and describe intentions in the past?
400
The irregular comparatives, which are better, worse, older, and younger in Spanish.
What are mejor, peor, mayor, menor?
400
"Believe in Santa" in spanish.
What is "creer en papá noel" in english?
500
The reason that -car, -gar, and -zar verbs change in the preterite yo form.
What verbs change in the preterite yo form in order to keep their original sound (orthographic spelling changes)?
500
English for "no querer" in the preterite tense.
What is Spanish for "to refuse" in the preterite tense?
500
The spanish verb used in the imperfect tense to describe past intentions.
What is ir?
500
A suffix, which when added to an adjective exaggerates the meaning, such as saying something is extremely good or bad.
What is "ísimo/a/os/as"?
500
"Scared of the dark" in spanish.
What is "tener miedo de la oscuridad" in english?