Spanish Regular Verbs – Present Tense
A Comparison of the Preterit and the Imperfect
← The preterit and the imperfect are two tenses in Spanish used to talk about the past.
← The preterit usually corresponds to the simple past in English, whereas the imperfect is similar to the past progressive tense (was/were + -ing form) or the combination of used to or would + the infinitive in English.
|El imperfecto |El pretérito |
|Refers to an ongoing action or state in the past. |Refers to a single completed action or state in the past. |
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|Used for describing actions or states in the past, descriptions. |Used to describe or narrate a complete action. |
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|Used to describe repeated habitual action in the past. |Refers to the beginning or end of an action. |
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|Used for telling time, the date, the weather, or the season in the |Used for interrupted actions. |
|past. | |
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|Used for emotional or mental states in the past. | |
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|Used for age or possession in the past. | |
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|Used for parallel actions in the past. | |
← A combination of the imperfect and the preterit tenses is used with interrupted action.
o The imperfect is used to describe an action that was in progress when another action took place (preterit).
▪ La madre miraba la tele cuando el bebé empezó a llorar.
The mother was watching TV when the baby began to cry.
▪ Comíamos cuando llegó Oscar.
We were eating when Oscar arrived.
▪ Mientras estudiaba en la biblioteca, sonó su teléfono celular.
While he was studying in the library, his cell phone rang.
← Only the imperfect is used for parallel actions (When two separate actions are occurring at the same time).
▪ Llovía mientras manejábamos.
It was raining while we were driving.
▪ La maestra estaba enojada porque los estudiantes hablaban mientras explicaba la lección.
The teacher was angry because the students were talking while she was explaining the lesson.
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