02 Spanish Lesson - Preterite vs Imperfect (part 2)

In this lesson we'll continue addressing some major differences between the preterite and the imperfect tenses in Spanish. Both are past tenses but they have different meanings.

In the previous video I showed examples while in this video, we go more over some rules or 'tendencies' of the two past tenses.

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[EmceeHerobrine]

Yo solia no saber preterito y imperfecto, pero entonces yo tomo una flecha en la rodilla.

I bet no one got that joke :P

[tontitofrito]

@EmceeHerobrine

[rolling eyes]

[juancgura932]

¿en tus videos cuando vas a dar un ejemplo pones eg de egemplo? ¡porque se escribe ejemplo! porque supongo que no es de example...

[tontitofrito]

@juancgura932

Sip. Ya lo he estado cambiando en los videos nuevos... lo use originalmente por lo de que 'eg' era algo del latin. Sin embargo, en espanol no se usa. Sino que se usa 'ej' y en ingles usamos 'ex'

[zondrah89]

Also, can you change an imperfect tense to a preterite by rewording it? Ex. "The pizza was hot as he was eating it" could be made preterite by saying "he ate a hot pizza," right?

[tontitofrito]

@zondrah89 Sure... 'comió pizza caliente'

[jteichma]

Este video es genial! gracias por eso.

[aqstickgitarr]

@EmceeHerobrine i cant even study for midterms without a skyrim joke.... :/

[utubepoop22]

@EmceeHerobrine skyrim :PPP

[cappuccino987]

Thank you so much, this was really really helpful!

[SuperKorealover]

Thank you soo much! Another way my spanish teacher taught us the difference is to use the acronym A PAW TALE. Its stands for:

Age

Physical condition

Apperance

Weather

Time

Attitude/desires

Location

Emotion

[christiJK]

thanks so much!!!

[justanothernobody2]

Thank you. I have a quiz tomorrow and in gonna ace it! Im subscribing!!

[rkong94]

thank you! I have a quiz tomorrow on this! You're very helpful!