Sentence Grammar
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If I wanted to say that "I used to live in Spain when I was in 1st grade" would I use the imperfect or preterite tense for both vivir and estar?
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updated Jan 30, 2014
posted by cordanth
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"I used to live in Spain when I was in 1st grade" ---> Yo solía vivir en España cuando estaba en primer grado.
to use to --> soler.
As you can see the verb "vivir" is Infinitive, so you need to conjugate the verb "soler".
Imperfect of soler ---> yo solía, tu solías, él/ella/eso solía, nosotros solíamos, ellos/ustedes solían.
Imperfect of estar --> yo estaba, tu estabas, él/ella/eso estaba, nosotros estábamos, ellos/ustedes estaban.
updated Jan 30, 2014
edited by ginatalia11
posted by ginatalia11
