You Have Seen the Worst of the Worst
While you may still be challenged by the many variations of the preterite, from here you can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Why? Because this is the end of the complications in Spanish verbs.
No, I'm serious! The preterite tense and the present tense are as bad as it gets. The tenses that remain are much easier to form.
What Lies Ahead...
The future tense and the conditional tense have only a smattering of irregular forms. You can master them in only a few minutes.
Then the compound tenses are easy as well.
You won't have a real challenge again until we reach the "boss level" of the Spanish verbs, the subjunctive mood.
Even there, the difficulty lies in usage, not in conjugation.
All Irregular Verbs in the Preterite
This lesson brings the entire zoo of preterite irregularities into one exercise.
Before we get to that, I do have a couple of last-minute additions to the preterite rule-breakers.
Dar and Ver in the Preterite
Among the most common verbs in Spanish, dar
and ver
follow the same pattern in the preterite:
Preterite conjugation of dar (to give)
Preterite conjugation of ver (to see)
On to the Exercises
Every infinitive verb in these exercises exhibits some form of irregularity in the preterite.
Just remember that the specific form requested could also be one of the normal conjugations of the irregular verb.
With that said, let's go!
On to the Exercises and the Quiz
To practice the verb forms in this lesson, click Practice Exercises below.
Whenever you want, you can take the quiz for this lesson.
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