Spanish tenses

Past perfect simple

Preterite perfecto simple (past perfect simple) tense describes actions in the past did.

Common irregular

-ar verbs - {-é, -aste, -ó, -amos, -aron}.

-er and -ir verbs - {-í, -iste, -ó, -imos, -ieron}.

Imperfect Past

Pretérito imperfecto Imperfect Past tense describes past conditions or actions, habitual used to do, always did, incomplete, continuous were doing

Common irregular verbs nosotros form takes an accent mark often

-ar verbs

-er, -ir verbs

were doing

descriptions in the past

An action interrupted

combine preterite and imperfect

Regular expressions

Recién just, recently, common in Latin America + preterite

Acabar de just, common in Spain + infinitive meaning past

Have done recently

haber + verb-ado, -ido.

irregular endings

Were doing

Doing right now

Infinitive

Future will