The verb which is irregular in the preterite is querer. When it comes to hablar and comer, they are both regular verbs. This means that in order to conjugate them, you just need to delete -ar for hablar and -er for comer, and add the following suffixes: é, aste, ó, amos, asteis, aron for hablar, and í, iste, <span>ió, imos, isteis, ieron for comer. </span>However, when it comes to querer, you have to learn the entire conjugation by heart: quise, quisiste, quiso, quisimos, quisisteis, quis<span>ieron.</span>
In an effort to make the boy happy at each of these stages, the tree gives him parts of herself, which he can transform into material items, such as money (from her apples), a house (from her branches), and a boat (from her trunk). With every stage of giving, "the Tree was happy".
