# 25. Past Tense For Regular Verbs

- **Time range:** 01:43:05 – 01:48:08  (duration 00:05:03)
- **Source:** [A Complete Guide To Every Fundamental In Spanish (The Conclusion)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YHDZSHCt1DE&t=6185s)

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> The Present Tense In Spanish: (ar, er, ir verbs) oO amos/emos/imos as/es_ | ais/éis/is a/e an/en

**[01:43:05]** past tense for regular verbs in Spanish follows the same idea for the present tense which I covered in one of my previous videos but in this video I will only explain the past tense for regular

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> The Past/Preterite Tense In Spanish: (ar, er, ir verbs)

**[01:43:13]** a r e r and I are verbs in Spanish also known as the predate or past simple tense just like with the present tense in Spanish the past tense follows the same idea of dropping off the ending of the a r e r or I verb and then adding the ending that corresponds with the pronoun let's start with regular ar

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> -ar ending verbs: é amos aste asteis fe) aron

**[01:43:29]** verbs for the yo pronoun you drop the ending of the verb and then add the ending a with an accent meaning that You' always have an emphasis on that vowel when you say the conjugative verb for two you drop the ending and then add the ending AE for l or AO said you drop the ending and at the ending o with an accent meaning that you likewise put an emphasis on that vow for noos you you put Amos and it's actually the same ending for the pronoun that you have in the present tense and so you can only tell the difference between them in context foros you put a and for AOS you put Aron let's use the verb a as an

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> hablar - to speak (past): hable | hablamos hablaste | hablasteis hablo | hablaron

**[01:44:03]** example how would you conjugate a for the yo pronoun you take a drop the ending and add the ending e with an accent and so it's pronounced y I spoke it's not y it's y for two you drop the ending and add the ending AE so you get aast meaning you spoke for l or a said you get ablo with an emphasis on the Last Vow it's not ablo it's ablo he or she spoke for noos you get abl and it's pronounced the same way as in the

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> hablar - to speak (past): hablé | hablamos hablaste | hablasteis hablo | hablaron

**[01:44:34]** present form and so you can only tell the difference between them in context for votos you get ablast which is you all spoke and for AOS you get ablon they spoke as far as ar verbs go I recommend that you memorize all of these endings

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> hablar - to speak (past): hablé | hablamos hablaste habiasteis. hablo | hablaron

**[01:44:47]** except votos because there is no pattern to follow with any of them but but the trickiest pronoun to use is noos because

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> hablar - to speak (past): hablé | hablamos hablaste hablasteis. hablo | hablaron

**[01:44:53]** the word abl can mean both we speak and we spoke however there is a way to tell the difference between them in context and that is by looking for keywords that Express time for instance if I say AO a

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> Hablamos contigo ahora

**[01:45:05]** I'm saying that we speak with you now

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> Hablamos contigo ahora We speak with you now

**[01:45:06]** because the word a indicates that

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> Hablamos contigo ahora We speak with you now

**[01:45:08]** however if I have a sentence

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> Hablamos con ellos ayer

**[01:45:10]** like the sentence would logically be we

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> Hablamos con ellos ayer We spoke with them yesterday

**[01:45:13]** spoke with them yesterday because AER indicates yesterday which is an action done in the past and that's really as difficult as it gets now there are verbs

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> -er & -ir ending verbs:

**[01:45:20]** ending in e r and I and conveniently unlike the present tense which has a

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> -ar ending verbs: é amos aste asteis fe) aron

**[01:45:25]** different conjugation pattern for each type of verb Spanish decides to use the

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> -er & -ir ending verbs: i imos iste isteis id ieron

**[01:45:28]** same Syntax for the past tense of verbs ending in e and IR both verbs that end in e and IR share the same ending which might develop an easier conjugation pattern to memorize for the yo pronoun you drop the ending of the verb ending in e r or I and you add the ending e with an emphasis on that vow for two you drop the ending and add the ending e for l or a you drop drop the ending and add the ending EO with an emphasis on the o for noos you drop the ending and add the ending OS which is actually the same ending as the ending of verbs ending in IR in the present tense and once again you can only tell the difference between them in context and finally for votos you get and for AOS you get let's use

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> comer - to eat (past): vivir - to live (past): comi comimos comiste | comisteis comio | comieron

**[01:46:10]** the verbs and VI as useful verbs how would you conjugate the verb in the past tense for the yo pronoun you take K drop the ending and put e and so you get yo I at for two you get kist which is U at for L you Geto which is he at foros you getos which is we ateos yall ate and AOS they ate and now

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> comer - to eat (past): vivir - to live (past): vivi vivimos viviste vivisteis vivio vivieron

**[01:46:35]** you simply replicate the same idea with regular verbs ending in IR like VI however don't forget about the noos

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> comer - to eat (past): vivir - to live (past): vivi vivimos viviste vivisteis vivid vivieron

**[01:46:41]** pronoun of ir verbs ending in OS because they do share the same ending if I say

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> Vivimos en Las Vegas ahora

**[01:46:46]** Vios in Las Vegas a I'm saying that we

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> Vivimos en Las Vegas ahora We live in Las Vegas now

**[01:46:48]** live in Las Vegas now because a indicates that however if I say Vios and

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> Vivimos en Los Angeles hace un ano

**[01:46:54]** Angeles I'm saying that we lived in Los

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> Vivimos en Los Angeles hace un anho We lived in Los Angeles a year ago

**[01:46:56]** Angeles a year ago because is the

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> Vivimos en Los Angeles hace un ano We lived in Los Angeles a year ago

**[01:46:59]** construction that indicates that so overall you have to watch out for these things because that's as difficult as it gets and with regular verbs ending in ER

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> comer - to eat (past): vivir - to live (past): vivi vivimos viviste | vivisteis vivid vivieron

**[01:47:06]** and IR I recommend just memorizing the pattern for all pronouns except votos

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> comer - to eat (past): vivir - to live (past): vivi vivimos viviste vivisteis vivid vivieron

**[01:47:11]** because it's the same in both types of verbs and also because it's a pattern that you would see all the time whenever you study the past tense in Spanish as I

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> Spanish Conjugating -ar -er -ir verbs

**[01:47:17]** said in my video on how to conjugate verbs in Spanish in the present tense there is no point in knowing every a r e r and IR verb out there because you'll never use all of them I decided to utilize useful verbs like abl com and VI to demonstrate how regular verbs in Spanish work in the past tense I could have extended the video by giving examples but I chose not to because I believe that you can do so on your own because knowing how the past or predate tense Works in Spanish is sufficient enough to understand how it can be used as far as the past tense goes in Spanish

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> The Past/Preterite Tense In Spanish: (hablar, comer, vivir) é/i amos/imos aste/iste | asteis/isteis 6/id aron/ieron

**[01:47:45]** there are actually multiple variations of it like the imperfect past perfect condition and conditional perfect and all of these tenses are topics for future videos so I decided to not over complicate the past tenses in Spanish by simply showing the regular past simple tense for regular a r e r and ir verbs and if you see any verb that's conjugated in the ways that I've shown in the video that means that this verb is in the past simple tense Spanish has
