questions about irregular ver 's past form

Question

Hi everyone

I feel start from the learn spainsh 2, it getting very hard for me

here I have some questions from : 2.7 - Irregular Preterit and Travel

Q1: in the video, at the beginning, it says "dar" and "ir" "ser" is irregular word, and it past form should be: doy, damos, das, dais, da, dan / soy, somos...... but when it come to sentences it became: le di el boleto, me dierom el boleto...... I dont understand here

Q2: it seems like ser and ir should change to fu.. and it follow the regular er changings (i, imos, iste, isteis, io, ieron) like : fui al campo por autobus but there are two places gos like: fue una fiesta fantastica / paralee fue a machupichu para ver las llamas why it is fue here? or why shouldn't it be fuio?

thank you so much I'm really confusing here

It is confusing me or I am confused. - Mardle, Apr 25, 2016

Thank you for voting for my answer as best. Please ask again if you need more of an explanation. - Mardle, Apr 25, 2016

Answer 1

I haven't done any lessons yet.

Sometimes in English and Spanish some verbs are irregular and you just have to learn them.

Doy, das, da, damos etc is the present tense of dar. In the present tense it is irregular in the first person - doy and second person plural dais. Otherwise it keeps to the rules for a verb ending in AR. When you use the preterite (a past tense) the endings are similar to those for a verb ending in ER or IR except for the third person singular where there is no 'o' at the end.

If it was a regular verb it would end in é, aste, ó, amos etc. The nosotros/ we form would be exactly the same for present and past.

Ser (to be) and ir (to go) are both irregular. In the preterite form they are the same as each other. They use 'fu' plus the endings for an IR verb except on third person singular where it is fue and third person plural where it is fueron not fuieron.

Sometimes changes are because it sounds better - you will find sometimes the spelling changes to make the pronunciation correct. I am not a native Spanish speaker so may be someone with more knowledge will answer.

Here is a link to the conjugation of

DAR

and

SER

on word reference. They use the colour blue where it does not follow the usual rule.

The good news is that there aren't many irregular verbs in the preterite.

Dear Mardie, thank you so much. Now I feel much more clear!! I confused present tense with the past tense. I will try to practice more following your guide here~~ Best /xiaolin - shushyorinn, Apr 25, 2016

Thank you. Buena suerte - Mardle, Apr 25, 2016

It is important to learn, step by step. For example to make the imperfect subjunctive you need to know the third person plural of the preterite! - Mardle, Apr 25, 2016