The preterite tense: How to talk about the past in Spanish. Sometimes we want to talk about things that have already happened and for that you need the preterite, which is a past tense.

The imperfect tense is used to talk about what someone used to do, what used to happen or what something used to be like. The imperfect tense is used to talk about what used to happen regularly and to ...

The contrastive use of the present perfect and the preterite in the Spanish-speaking world differs from region to region. For the Andean region, however, where Spanish is in contact with Quechua, it ...