
Repeat this lesson if you’re not comfortable with it yet. Note that the endings of regular -er and -ir verbs are identical in the preterite tense. car qu sacar yo saqu nosotros sacamos t sacaste ustedes sacaron Ana sac ellos sacaron. The preterite tense of regular verbs is formed by dropping the infinitive ending (-ar, -er, -ir) and adding the preterite endings. Preterite verbs ending in -car, -gar, and -zar Irregular yo forms. (Juana) You painted it (la casa) last week The preterite is used to describe actions or states that began or were completed at a definite time in the past. Look over the present subjunctive conjugations of the regular ar verb escuchar in Table. Benites) You didn’t clean it (la ventana) Table, below, will help you understand that the verb endings used for ar verbs in the present tense subjunctive are like those used for the regular present tense of er verbs.


As usual, you’ll read a phrase in English and you try to conjugate it into Spanish. Now, we’ll go ahead and begin our “ar” spine verb practice. Spanish Practice Session – Spine Practice car, -gar, -zar verbs tocar llegar almorzar buscar pagar empezar sacar jugar cazar-car, -gar, -zar verbs Verbs that end with car, -gar, and zar change spelling in the yo form in the preterite tense. In the following Practice Session, you’ll have the chance to conjugate many ar spine verbs. For example: “I tried to eat” – in past tense - would be “traté de comer”, the phrase “He tried to run would be “trató de correr”, and the phrase “We tried to speak” would be “tratamos de hablar” Remember, the AR verb “nosotros” form is the same in the present tense as well as the past tense. This quiz will test your ability to work with -zar, -car and - gar ending verbs in the preterite. Now, our final usage example: When you say “to try”, then add another verb, you have to add the word “de” between them. – For example, if you say I enter the house, in Spanish you would say “Entro en la casa” and if you say “I enter the car” you would say “Entro en el carro”. If you add a location after the word “entrar”, you need to put the word “en” afterwards. verb conjugations for the Regular Preterite: AR, ER, IR, -car/-gar/-zar verbs. The verb “to enter” in Spanish is “entrar”. To form the irregular verb, add the endings above to the preterite stems.

Now we’ll take a brief look at a couple of usage situations.
