Spanish Answering Questions
The most basic Spanish questions are those whose answer is “Si” or “No”. In English we ask questions using auxiliaries like DO or DID, but in…
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Spanish Preterit vs Imperfect
Many students have trouble knowing when to use the preterit tense or the imperfect tense, as they both refer to actions in the past. There…
Spanish Irregular Imperfect Tense
There are only three verbs with irregular conjugations in the imperfect: ir, ser, and ver. Remember how there were a lot of irregular verbs and rules to verbs…
Spanish Imperfect Tense
There are only two sets of endings for regular imperfect verbs in Spanish, one for -ar verbs and one for both -er and -ir verbs. To conjugate…
Spanish Preterit Verbs with Irregular Meanings
Discover several Spanish verbs that have different meanings when used in the present tense vs the past tense. In our last lesson we talked about Irregular…
Spanish Irregular Past Tense Verbs
The Spanish preterit tense is used to describe actions completed at a specific point in the past; whereas the imperfect is used to describe habitual…
Spanish Regular Preterit Tense
The preterit tense (El pretérito Regular) is used to express events that have occurred in the past. This tense generally corresponds to the simple past tense in English.…
Spanish “Por” vs “Para”
Although both Spanish prepositions por and para can often be translated as “for,” they have separate meanings and can seldom be used as synonyms. -Por…
Spanish The Verbs “to know”
The Spanish verb conocer, which comes from the same root as the English words “cognition” and “recognize,” generally means “to be familiar with.” The most common…
Spanish Positive and Negative Words
Mastering the use of positive (affirmative) and negative words in Spanish is an integral step to becoming a more coherent, fluent-like speaker. This unit reviews…