One of these I'd love to welcome back to Coffee Break Spanish.

In lesson 64 we're putting Boran Barra behind us and concentrating on another aspect

of the language which we need to look at and that is the perfect tense.

We've already learned that the preterood and imperfect are used in the past but when

you're talking about having done something I have drunk a coffee for example then you

need to use the perfect tense so in this lesson we'll look at the formation of the

perfect is very straightforward I hope you enjoy the lesson.

So Karra so far we have learned two different tenses for talking about the past what were

they?

The imperfect and the preterood.

That's right the imperfect and the preterood.

The imperfect was used, well can you remember which situations the imperfect was used in?

When you're saying was or were doing something when you used to do something when you would

do something in the past and also for descriptions like the weather?

Yeah that's exactly right that's the imperfect and what about the preterood?

When it's a stume a complete action in the past.

Yeah when it's a stume basically any time there is a completed action in the past and

often the preterood interrupts the imperfect.

Now there was one other tense that we didn't mention at the time and I didn't mention it

for a reason the reason being it perhaps would complicate things a little too much and

you can get away with the preterood in many situations however there is this other

tense to talk about things that you have done or things that you've done recently for

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