![]() ![]() The little mermaid was named Ariel and she had six sisters. La sirenita se llamaba Ariel y tenía seis hermanas. ![]() We use the imperfect to describe the setting or provide background information such as what people, places, or conditions were like at some unspecified time in the past: "usually," "used to," and "would" clue us into theįact that we should use the imperfect. "frequently," "generally," "never," "often," And in the third we use preparaba (rather than preparó) because this was a habitual action that happened often. In the second we use the imperfect llegaba (rather than the preterite llegó) because we know from the context that ![]() In the first example we use the imperfect jugaba (rather than the preterite jugué) because we see this happened repeatedly, over the course of many Saturdays. My mother would always prepare breakfast for me. We mainly use the imperfect tense when talking about repeated, usual, or habitual actions in the past: Note: For this lesson imperfect conjugations will be indicated like this: imperfect conjugation Repeated, Usual, Habitual Actions The event happened once or went on for a while is "built in" to the conjugation Of the decision to use either the preterite or the imperfect boils down to theĭifference in the two example sentences above. In the second we know it happened repeatedly. The first sentence we know that the fishing happened once. Get across to the reader or listener important information such as when or how often thisĮvent occurred we have to add some extra information: Than that, do we? For example: did the fishing occur once or many times? However, we don't know anything more about the situation What's the time frame of this action? Clearly the fishing We have only one past tense conjugation and it tells us simply one thing - the action happened in the past. We just don't think the same way in English. Which is one of the more frustrating things a Spanish student has to do because Both ways to talk about actions that happened in the past. ![]()
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