Vin e, vin iste, vin o, vin imos, vin isteis, vin ieronĭij e, dij iste, dij o, dij imos, dij isteis, dij eron Tuv e, tuv iste, tuv o, tuv imos, tuv isteis, tuv ieron Sup e, sup iste, sup o, sup imos, sup isteis, sup ieron Quis e, quis iste, quis o, quis imos, quis isteis, quis ieron Pus e, pus iste, pus o, pus imos, pus isteis, pus ieron Pud e, pud iste, pud o, pud imos, pud isteis, pud ieron Hic e, hic iste, hi z o, hic imos, hic isteis, hic ieron CAREFUL! 3rd person is 'hizo', not 'hico' Now that we understand the process, here are again the verbs in the table above, fully conjugated in Preterite:Īnduv e, anduv iste, anduv o, anduv imos, anduv isteis, anduv ieronĮstuv e, estuv iste, estuv o, estuv imos, estuv isteis, estuv ieron * For verbs whose stem ends in “j”, the ending for “ellos” is “-eron”. e (yo) -iste (tú) -o (él) -imos (nosotros) -isteis (vosotros) -ieron / *-eron (ellos) In the right column, the endings for each person: Verb I n the middle column, we see the irregular stem we need to use in Preterite. The following table shows the most important verbs of this type. – Also, the endings are different from the regular ones. – Each verb has an irregular stem in Preterite. The rest of very irregular verbs conjugate in the following way: “ser” (to be) and “ir” (to go) are identical in Preterite Tense, with a very irregular conjugation:.“dar” adds the endings for verbs in “-er” and “-ir”, instead of “-ar”.“ver” adds the regular endings, but it has no accent marks at all:.First we have “ver”, “dar”, “ser” and “ir”: Now let’s study the verbs we are calling very irregular. Have you noticed that in the tables above? 🙂Īnd verbs of the last type we have studied (where a letter “y” appears) have even more accent marks!

Also, these verbs have accent marks for all persons except “ellos”.Īccent marks on regular and almost-regular verbsĪll regular and almost-regular verbs have accent marks for “yo” and “él”. In other verbs, a vowel “i” becomes “y” in the ending for “él” and “ellos”.In other verbs, a vowel “o” becomes “u” for “él” and “ellos”.In some verbs, a vowel “e” becomes “i” for the persons “él” and “ellos”.The verbs we are calling almost-regular add the same endings as regular verbs.īut they have one of the following irregularities: Notice that the endings for verbs in “-er” and “-ir” are identical. The following table shows the endings we need to add to regular verbs in -ar (example “hablar”), -er (example “beber”) and -ir (example “partir”): Regular and almost-regular verbs Regular verbs On the other hand, very irregular verbs.On one hand, regular and almost-regular verbs.In order to learn the conjugations, we will divide verbs into two grupos: Conjugation of verbs in Preterite Tense.

Preterite endings practice