The preterite and imperfect are past tenses in Spanish. Preterite is a definite past tense, representing a situation that had a definite start, duration, and end; finished, completed actions. The imperfect tense is more of an indefinite time period in the past, regarding indefinite time periods, descriptions, and continuous actions in the past.
Preterite:
Vi la película anoche. = I saw the movie last night.
Me gustó la película mucho. = I liked it a lot.
Imperfect:
Juagaba videojuegos de niño. = I used to play video games as a child.
Eran las dos de la tarde. = It was two o'clock in the afternoon.
Answer:
Explanation:
Hello, how are you? I want us to be friends
Answer:
1.¿Quien lo repitio?
2.ellos lo prefirieron.
3.¿Te divertiste?
4.No pedi nada.
5.nos hemos vestido
6.Los meseros sirvieron la comida
Answers and explanation:
In this exercise we will be practising and acquiring words in order to get our Spanish level better. This kind of tasks are thought to help Spanish students improving their vocabulary inventory, so we need to:
- Understand the context of the sentence: this implies to know the meaning of each word and to understand what the complete enounce is saying
- Understand the meaning of the options and be able to identify its differences.
- Search on dictionaries, guides or the web ALL the words and structures unknown.
Here there is some extra advice you can follow in order to improve your competence in Spanish language:
- READ READ READ! It will help you to acquire more vocabulary and to understand more easily the new language.
- DON´T BE AFRAID TO MAKE MISTAKES: Always remember that you are in a learning process and it is normal to make mistakes. Go ahead!
- ASK FOR HELP IF NECESSARY: Remember that you have teachers, classmates, websites and other places in where you could ask for help
- BUY A DICTIONARY! Nowadays is pretty common to search on the web all we want, but you also could buy a physical dictionary to consult every time you need it.
Our SPECIFIC THEME is LA HORA; notice how it exists some phrases and structures that are constantly repeated; for example: <em>“son”, “de la tarde”, “de la mañana”, “menos cuarto”,</em> etc.
<h2>ANSWERS</h2>
1. Son las cinco y veinte de la tarde (5:20)
2. Son las tres cincuenta de la tarde (3:50)
3. Son las siete cuarenta de la mañana (7:40)
4. Son las dos y diez de la tarde (2:10)
5. Son las ocho cinco (8:05)
6. Son las cuatro cuarenta de la tarde (4:40)
7. La clase es a las seis cuarenta y cinco/ siete menos cuarto (6:45)
8. La clase es a las cuatro y media/ cuatro treinta (4:30)
9. Son las once veinte de la noche (11:20)
10. Son las diez cuarenta y cinco/ once menos cuarto de la noche (10:45).
