Today's "Imperfect - Preterit"..."Ver - to see"
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As you already know, English has fewer tenses then Spanish.
Today we will examine the preterite and imperfect Spanish tenses.
I will select the verb that we will use.
I will tell you its verb meaning…in general.
I will also give you the verbs conjugations.
You will need to select one of the conjugations and use it in a sentence.
Examples : (Ver) – ¿Dónde la vio? (Where did you see her?)
Please answer in Spanish and English. Please use ‘clip art” if you have it.
And please…enjoy your exercise.
Como ya lo sabes, el inglés tiene menos tiempos que el español.
Hoy examinaremos los tiempos pretérito e imperfecto de español.
Seleccionaré el verbo que utilizaremos.
Les diré la significación del verbo…por lo general.
También les daré las conjugaciones del verbo.
Tendrán que seleccionar una de las conjugaciones y utilizarla en una frase.
Ejemplos: (to see - Ver)- Where did you see her? (¿Dónde la vio?)
Por favor conteste en español y en inglés.
Por favor use ‘el arte de clip” si usted lo tiene.
Y por favor … ¡ diviértanse!
Los verbos serán ; “to see - Ver ”
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The verbs will be ; “ Ver – to see”
El pretérito – de ver
vi, viste, vio, vimos. visteis, vieron
El imperfecto – de ver
veía, veías, veía, veíamos, veíais, veían
Choose one conjugation and use it in a sentence.
Escojan una conjugación y utilícenla en una fraze.
(Ver – to see)
Escríbamela en inglés y español...por favor. Write it for me in English and Spanish please. ¡Incluyan caudros/dibujos…cuando los prefieran! Include pictures/drawings…when you prefer them!
5 Answers
Mientras estaban navegando en el océano, vieron muchos delfines.
While they were sailing on the ocean, they saw many dolphins.
El sábado pasado my marido y yo vimos una obra de teatro muy buena.
Last Saturday my husband and I saw a very good play.
De repente, vi una cara pálida en la oscuridad..
Suddenly, I saw a pale face, in the dark..
This is a tad long for a comment so I'm framing it as an answer which it isn't really.
Guided by annierats I went off and looked up conjugations. A point for Annie is that no subjunctives are shown for English. Yes they are now somewhat out of date but that doesn't mean that they don't exist. Try reading, for example Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Churchill (also his speeches), Dorothy L Sayers, P G Woodhouse etc. etc. and you'll see subjunctives in all tenses. Some folk use them even today; I know that I do. If I were to believe all this nonsense about English having no subjunctives it would be a foolish mistake.
As for the Preterit, which also appears to be listed as missing, I suggest that the Wikipedia reference furnishes ample evidence that it has always existed although not necessarily under that name. For myself, I was brought up to use the Past Indicative to express what now seems to have been renamed as the Preterit (US spelling).
Thank you annie, you wired me up to get out there and check as I've been meaning to do for ages.
I'm still puzzled.
May I ask which Spanish tense is not represented in English? I have seen this claim unnumbered times but never with a definition of what is missing in English.
Puzzled, Texas
