Im finding it challenging using estuví in sentences.

Question

I am trying to put sentences together using past tense (preterito)

Estar.

I know the conjugations; estuví, estuviste, etc..

But How can I uses this in a sentence? I tried to the translator but it keeps using estaba...I must be using it wrong!

Estuví enferma en lunes

Yo estaba allí en una.

Please help by suggesting sentences using

Answer 1

estuvE enferma el lunes estuve en mi casa a la una

Also for tu and él - saramallorca, Dec 17, 2010

estuviste enferma el lunes y estuvo - saramallorca, Dec 17, 2010

Answer 2

Estar is an irregular verb in the preterit that does no follow the normal ending structure (í, iste, ió, imos, ieron). It is instead conjugated as estuve, estuviste, estuvo, estuvimos, estuvieron.

Hope this helps

Answer 3

Leanahtan said:

Estar is an irregular verb in the preterit that does no follow the normal ending structure (í, iste, ió, imos, ieron)

Careful. Although "estar" does indeed follow an irregular pattern in the preterit (as well as for many other tenses), it is of the first conjugation (-ar verbs), and the appropriate regular endings for an -ar verb would be: é, aste, ó, amos, asteis, aron