Spanish Tenses

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Spanish Tenses

The Spanish Tenses

  • The Present Tense
  • The Imperfect tense
  • The Preterite Tense
  • The Future Tense
  • The Perfect Tense
  • The Conditional Tense
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The Present Tense

The Present Tense is used to describe:

·         Current actions and situations
Estoy listo - I am ready.

·         Habitual actions     
Voy a la escuela todos los días -    I go to school every day

·         Absolute and general truths
La tierra es grande - The earth is big.

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The Imperfect Tense

The imperfect is used for past actions that are not seen as completed. Use of the imperfect tense implies that the past action did not have a definite beginning or definite end.

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The Preterite Tense

The preterite is used for actions in the past that are seen as completed. Use of the preterite tense implies that the past action had a definite beginning and definite end.

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The Future Tense

The future tense is used to tell what "will" happen, or what "shall" happen.

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The Perfect Tense

The present perfect is formed by combining the auxiliary verb "has" or "have" with the past participle.

Add ado or ido and the form of haber in front of the verb:

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The Conditional Tense

The conditional (el condicional ) tense in Spanish is used to express what would happen in the future. It is more of a possibility, or hypothetical situation, than the future tense.

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The Near Future (Immediate) Tense

The immediate future tense is simply an action one is going to do. To illustrate, right now, what are you going to do? In English, you would say I am going to learn the immediate future tense in Spanish. This very same sentence is:

Yo voy a aprender el tiempo futuro inmediato en español.

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Comments

theschoolking456

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i think that one of the imperfects is wring should be abais not aban and iais not ian

Widger

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@theschoolking456 no it is correct, he's just missed the vosotros category and put ustedes in instead.

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