Transcript Are You Ready for This JELLY? Well Step on Into - Prof. Gahm-Diaz

Are You Ready for
This JELLY? Well Step
on Into the World
of PRETERITE!
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Imperfect is Wack; Preterite is where it’s
At!
Regular Formation
 Drop the regular ending and add the following endings based on the
ending of the original verb:
 -ar verbs
-er/ir verbs
 é
amos
í
imos
 aste asteis
iste
isteis
 ó
aron
ió
ieron
 For example, take the verb comer in a sentence:
 She ate a lot of hamburgers at the party.
You would take off the –er ending off of comer and add the –er ending for
ella, él, and usted, to the stem of comer, since the subject of the
sentence is “she.” In a sentence it would look like:
Ella comió mucho hamburguesas al fiesta.
Example: I bought some new shoes. The verb is comprar:
Yo compré unos nuevos zapatos.
Now it Gets Harder!
In the Preterite, there are
also other exceptions.
 For verbs that end in –car, -gar, or –zar,
in the yo-form, they do a special little
trick!
Buscar busqué
buscamos
Lanzar
 -car-qué
buscaste buscasteis
lancé
lanzamos
busco
buscaron
lanzaste lanzasteis
 -gar- gué
lanzó
lanzaron
 -zar- cé Jugar jugué jugamos I played with Robert yesterday
jugaste
jugasteis Yo jugué con Robert
jugió
jugaron
manaña.
Irregular formation/
original example
 In the preterite form, there are some special
verbs that change their stems in the preterite
form. Then you would add the irregular ending
to the verb, depending on whether the original
verb had an ar or er/ir ending.
Poder- pud
Saber- sup
Poner- pus
Tener- tuv
Estar- estuv
Andar- anduv
Hacer-hic
Traducir- traduj
Venir- vin
Ir- Fui
fuimos
Querer- quis Ser-Fuiste fuisteis
Traer- traj
fue
fueron
Producir- produj
Decir- dij
Irregular Formation
Continued
 Ver- vi
vimos
viste visteis
vio vieron
Irregular endings:
e
imos
iste
isteis
o
ieron
Dar- di
dimos
diste disteis
dio
dieron
Remember: None of the irregular endings have
accents!
Creative Ways to Remember
the Irregular Form
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People- Poder
Have- hacer
In- ir
Sip - saber
Various- venir
Something- ser
Peppermint- Poner Qookies- Querer
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Tea- tener
To- traer
Very- ver
Every- estuv
Proudly- producir Delicious- dar
Afternoon- andar
Dip- decir
&
Them- traer
The beginning of each letter stands for a different
irregular verb.
Pancake
 In the preterite, some verbs pancake, or change
in the ud/ella/él form and ustedes/ellas/ellos
form.
 This means that it changes from o to u and e to
i.
 Take dormir, meaning to sleep and conjugate it
out.
 As you can see
dormimos
the o changed to dormí
dormisteis
a u in the bottom dormiste
two forms.
durmió
durmieron
When do we use this
preterite
 When talking about the past.
 A direct fixed point in time. When verbs
end in “ed”.
 The English equivalence is simple past,
fixed period of time, “ed”, had, has, and
have.
 We use it at a fixed point in time, a specific
number of times, or during an enclosed
amount of time.
How to use this preterite
 When I started speaking, they started
cheering.
 The above sentence needs the preterite
because there are verbs that end in “ed.”
 Cuando yo commencé hablar, ellos
commenzaron gritar.
 They went to the mall.
 The above sentence has an irregular
english past tense.
 Ellos fueron a la tienda.
More examples for
preterite
 When I ate the cake, I drank the drink
 Spanish: Cuando yo comé el bolo, yo
tomé la bebida.
 Everyone has talked about the News Cast.
 Todas personas hablaron sobre el News
Cast.
 People walked the dog late that night.
 Agente andaron el perro tarde la noche.
Video example
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhBOF_
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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjS5PY
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OMGG WEREE DONE!!
 The preterite may seem difficult, but if
you take it one step at a time, you will be
able to figure it out.
 ADIOSSS MIS AMIGOS!