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Past Tenses

Past Tenses: General

Just like in English, there are numerous types of past tenses in Spanish.

We will learn each of these separately and later we will learn how to combine them.

Please note that the following table illustrates the Spanish-English equivalents, though their use in NOT identical.

 

Spanish

English

1.

Pretérito indefinido

Past simple

2.

Pretérito indefinido + Gerundio

Past progressive

3.

Pretérito perfecto

Present perfect

4.

Pretérito perfecto + Gerundio

Present perfect progressive

5.

Pretérito imperfecto

Past imperfect

6.

Pretérito imperfecto + Gerundio

Past imperfect progressive

7.

Pretérito pluscuamperfecto

Past perfect

8.

Pretérito pluscuamperfecto + Gerundio

Past perfect progressive

9.

Combining all tenses

 

 

Exercises

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Texts

 

 

 

 

 


 
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