CBS 2.16 | Spelling changes in the preterite tense

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🗓️ 12 July 2010

⏱️ 25 minutes

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More preterite tenses this week: it’s now time to look at reflexive verbs and verbs which have spelling changes ('radical-changing verbs') in the preterite tense. Please note that lesson 16 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 216 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 back to Coffee Break Spanish. This lesson, number 56, continues to look at the
0:18.1	pre-treat tense. However, we're going to be looking at certain verbs which have interesting
0:23.0	spelling issues, shall we say, in the pre-treat tense. Verbs like bogar and bogar. Because of the
0:30.4	endings of the pre-treat tense, we have to insert some extra letters into the conjugation of
0:35.8	these verbs. It will all become clear in this lesson. Have you enjoyed it?
0:45.2	Now, before we get into the new content for today's lesson, let's review some of what we
0:50.1	covered last week. Karak, can you remember how to conjugate the verbs that we learned last week
0:55.2	in the pre-treat tense? Maybe. Okay, let's begin with ear. The verb ear means tickle. And ear in the
1:04.0	present starts with boy. Okay, so boy, that's bad, that's why he's bad. You know that, everyone knows
1:11.5	that. But let's think about ear in the pre-treat. It changes somewhat, doesn't it? How would you say
1:18.8	I went? Fui. Muy bien, fui. So if I went as fui, how would you say, for example, we went.
1:31.3	Fui más. Muy bien. Fui más. Now, the other verbs that we looked at last week were
1:37.8	ather, mer, and dar. What does ather mean? To do. To do. And there's another meaning of ather,
1:46.9	sometimes means to make. Yeah, ather to do or to make. And remember, obviously, if you're in
1:52.4	Latin America, you wouldn't say ather, but acer. Now, what about mer? To see. To see, that's right.
2:02.2	So mer, to see, and we also looked at dar. Dar means to give. To give. Now, we've also come
2:09.6	across dar in a couple of idiomatic senses. Can you remember how to say, for example, to throw a
2:16.3	party? Dar una fiesta. Dar una fiesta. So putting this into the pre-treat, how would you say,
2:25.7	I gave or I threw a party? Di una fiesta. Muy bien. You remember that dar becomes di in the pre-treat tense.
2:39.5	Let's go through the whole of dar. We started with I gave. Di. You gave. Diste. He, she or it gave. Dio.
2:54.1	And that's also used for the Usteth form as well. Usteth Dio. We gave. Dimas. You gave. That's the
3:04.0	plural form in Spain. Disteis. Disteis. Muy bien. And they gave. Dieron. Dieron. Muy bien. Now,
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