CBS 2.13 | Introducing the preterite tense

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🗓️ 21 June 2010

⏱️ 18 minutes

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In episode 13 of Coffee Break Spanish we introduce the preterite tense which is used to talk about things in the past. Please note that lesson 13 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 213 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Coffee Brick Spanish, there's Lesson 53 so far we've been looking at the present
0:16.4	tense and indeed talking a little bit about what you're going to do at some point in
0:20.6	the future.
0:21.6	Today we're going to take things into the past and we'll look at the tense called the
0:26.6	preterate tense and learn the conjugation for E-R verbs in the preterate.
0:31.6	I hope you enjoy the lesson.
0:38.6	Okay as I said it's time to take a step back into the past and we're going to talk about
0:43.6	things that happened in the past.
0:46.4	Now it's quite important that we consider carefully what kind of past we're talking
0:51.3	about.
0:52.3	People sometimes talk about the past tense and I don't want to put you off but there's
0:55.8	more than one past tense in Spanish depending on which type of past tense you're thinking
1:01.2	about or past occurrence.
1:03.7	Think in English for example we would say I did my Spanish homework, I was doing my
1:10.8	Spanish homework, I have done my Spanish homework, I had done my Spanish homework, I used
1:17.1	to do my Spanish homework, there's lots of different tense in English as well and the
1:21.1	one that we are going to be talking about today and indeed in the next few lessons is
1:25.1	that the tense that is our narrative tense is something that tells the story.
1:30.2	So it's called the preterate, the preterate tense in Spanish el preterito indefinido.
1:39.0	El preterito indeferido.
1:43.5	And just to clarify it's the tense that we use for single actions that happened once
1:50.1	in the past and that happened once business is quite important, okay?
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