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.
- Ellos deben ayudar a su madre.
- Mi hermana tiene que llamar a nuestra abuela.
- Yo tengo que poner los platos sucios en el lavaplatos.
- Tú debes cerrar siempre la puerta del refrigerador
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