What is preterit indefinido?
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Is it the same as preterit perfect?
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updated Oct 2, 2011
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The preterit indefinido is another name for the pretérito perfecto simple or more simply the pretérito (preterit in English)
Preterit perfect in English would more likely correspond to the preterit of haber+past participle (e.g. hubo hablado) This tense (pretérito anterior) isn't used much in spoken Spanish and some articles on the Perfect Tenses in Spanish don't even mention it.
Just as the (simple) past tense in Spanish consists of a preterit (habló) and an imperfect version (hablaba), so the compound past tense [indicative mood] consists of an imperfect version (pluperfect or pluscuamperfecto...había hablado)) and a preterit version (the preterit perfect or pretérito anterior...hubo hablado).
updated Oct 2, 2011
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