Three Step Spanish for Beginners - Learn #5 - Discussing Past Events in Spanish - Grammar

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

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learn to talk about past events in Spanish

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0:00.0	Let's look at the sentence pattern. Do you remember how the character said? Of course, I arrived many years ago to meet my grandmother. Hmm. Hmm. Oh!
0:22.6	Ah!
0:23.6	Sure!
0:27.6	I've got!
0:28.6	I've got many years
0:30.6	to know my abuela.
0:33.6	Clare.
0:36.6	I... ...he ...as ... Of my mother. In this sentence, I've
0:39.3	made
0:40.3	many
0:42.3	years
0:43.3	to
0:44.3	know
0:45.3	my abuela.
0:47.3	In this
0:49.3	sentence,
0:50.3	you can recognize
0:52.3	a verb in the preterate
0:57.0	the gie meaning I arrived
1:02.0	in Spanish we use the preterate tense to talk about specific
1:08.0	completed actions in the past, things that happened at a particular moment.
1:17.6	Let's review how the Pretorite is formed for three common types of regular verbs.
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