Diana Trujillo: 'fue', 'hizo' and 'tuvo'
I can use the preterite tense of regular and irregular verbs to talk about other people's past actions and achievements.
- Year 9
Diana Trujillo: 'fue', 'hizo' and 'tuvo'
I can use the preterite tense of regular and irregular verbs to talk about other people's past actions and achievements.
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Key learning points
- The preterite tense is used to describe completed events in the past.
- To mean 'she, he, it' remove the -er/-ir and add -ió. e.g. nació
- To mean 'they' remove the -er/-ir and add -ieron. e.g. nacieron
- Use the DOP 'lo' for him/it (masculine) and 'la' for her/it (feminine) – the thing or person receiving the action
- Some verbs are irregular. Use fue, hizo and tuvo to say he/she went, did and had in the past.
Keywords
Preterite tense - a tense used for events completed in the past
Direct object pronoun - person, animal or thing that receives the action of the verb
Irregular verb - a verb that does not follow the regular rules
Common misconception
To form the preterite tense I just take off the -er/-ir and add the correct ending (-ió - for she, he, it) to all the verbs.
Some verbs are irregular and don’t follow the pattern. e.g. hacer - hizo, tener - tuvo, ir - fue.
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