What was that? Ser has a prederate tense.

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As we've explored our first five verbs, we've learned the imperfect forms of all of them, as well as some of the predurate forms of esthar, tenor, and ir.

And as we learned back in episode 31, the predurate tends to be used specifically when you're describing some sort of event or something that had a specific

duration in the past. Ser, meanwhile, doesn't tend to use the prederate much because normally

when you're talking about what something was or who someone was in the past, it's not much

of an event. Instead, it's not much of an event.

Instead, it's just a general fact about the general past.

For example, we were friends.

However, sometimes being something is an event with a specific duration.

That would likely be the case for the following sentences.

It was a mistake.

He was the winner.

Or she was the first.

In each of these cases, you'd use the word foe.

Now, we already learned the word foe as the word for he, she, or it, went as the prederate of iir.

But as bizarre as this is, the fact is that ser and ir have the same predurate tense forms.

All five of the ir peterates that we learned,

fui, fue, fiste, furon, and fimos, can indicate the past tense of either ir or ser.

So here's another example.

I was the one that helped you that day.

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