When do i use "fue" versus "era"? How do i know?

Question

When do I use fue versus era in a question?

Welcome to the forum. Always remember to capitalize the letter, "I" in English. - rac1, Nov 11, 2014

Answer 1

You would use "fue" when you want to use the preterite and era when you want the imperfect. To learn more about preterite vs imperfect, you can use "preterite vs imperfect" in the search window of the Q&A forum or you can look on the Menu / Grammar / Verbs then preterite vs imperfect is one of the categories under Verbs.

The answer to your question requires that you study the two tenses. If you have specific examples you can post those with as much context as possible.

We've had some great argum---er, discussions on this subject, que no? - Daniela2041, Nov 12, 2014