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Three Step Spanish for Beginners - Learn #8 - Talking About Your Weekend in Spanish - Grammar

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🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

learn to talk about things you did over the weekend using the preterite tense, with a focus on irregular verbs like ir, hacer, ser, and ver

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's look at the sentence pattern.

0:02.0

Do you remember how the character said,

0:05.0

I went to the stadium with my dad to watch a soccer match?

0:13.0

I went to the stadium with my dad to watch a soccer match.

0:16.0

I went to the stadium with my papa a ver a partido of football.

0:21.6

I feel at the stadium with my papa for a bit of a football.

0:27.6

This sentence follows the pattern here.

0:30.6

Subject, optional, plus irregular verb in the preterite plus compliment.

0:38.3

In Spanish, the pretarite is one of the past tenses.

0:41.3

We use it to talk about completed actions,

0:44.3

things that happened once or were finished in the past.

0:47.3

We often lived out the subject because the verb form already tells us who is doing the action,

0:52.3

but it's okay to include it too.

0:55.6

Here's how the line from the dialogue uses the pattern.

0:59.9

Fui at the stadium with my papa to have a partido of football.

1:07.2

I went to the stadium with my dad to watch a soccer match. Let's break it down.

1:12.6

Fui.

1:13.6

This is the first person singular form of I,

1:17.6

meaning I went.

1:19.6

The subject, yo, is dropped because Fui already tells us its first person.

1:25.6

It shows a completed past action.

1:29.0

Al-stadio, meaning to the stadium, tells us where the action happened.

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