Coffee Break Spanish - CBS 2.14 | Preterite tense of -ir and -ar verbs

Episode Date: June 30, 2010

This week’s episode of Coffee Break Spanish looks further at the preterite tense which is used to relate events in the past. Listeners should be aware that this episode was originally released in February 2008 and therefore mentions Valentine’s Day. We hope this doesn’t spoil your enjoyment of the episode! Please note that lesson 14 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 214 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.This season of Coffee Break Spanish features a total of 40 lessons, all of which will be included in the podcast feed. Just stay subscribed to the podcast to enjoy each episode. If you’d like to benefit from video versions, lesson notes and bonus audio materials, you can access the premium version of Coffee Break Spanish in the Coffee Break Academy.Don’t forget to follow Coffee Break Spanish on Facebook where we post language activities, cultural points and review materials to help you practise your Spanish. Remember - a few minutes a day can help you build your confidence in the language. Access the Coffee Break Spanish Facebook page here.If you’d like to find out what goes on behind the scenes here at Coffee Break Languages, follow @coffeebreaklanguages on Instagram.You can also check out our Coffee Break Spanish Twitter page and the Coffee Break Languages YouTube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, and bien merinos a copybreak Spanish. Welcome back to copybreak Spanish. In this lesson, it's lesson 54, and we're going to be looking again at the preterate tense, the preterate tense of ER and IR verbs this time. I hope you enjoy the lesson. So it's time to move on from last week. We started looking at the preterate tense, and we looked at AR verbs last week. Kara, have you done your homework? Try to do my homework. I still haven't gotten very far, though. So I asked everybody last week to concentrate on the AR endings in the preterate tense. Just to remind you, that was, for example, taking Ablaire, Ablae, Ablaste, Ablo. Ablamos, Ablastes, havelaron. And what I wanted you to do was get so used to this that you would be able to use it very, very quickly, seeing it in that rhythm.

Ablet, ablaste, ablo, ablamos, ableste, they've blaron. Kara, would you like to try this in front of the whole world or hundreds of thousands of listeners? Would you like to try it, please? Okay. Ablet, ablaste, ablo, ablastis, ablarsis, ablarsis ablaren. Very bien, very well. I hope everybody's been practicing this this week. Now, do you remember when we were looking at the present tense?

Actually, quite recently, we introduced two other conjugations. That was ER verbs and IR verbs. Kara, can you remember any examples of ER verbs? Comer. Comer. When you're saying an infinitive, always trying to put the pronunciation or the stress, rather, on the last syllable.

Comer. Comer. Ablar. And as an example of an IR verb, subier. Subir. Subir means to go up. Okay. Now, when we looked at ER and IR verbs,

we were looking at. at them in the present tense. And just as in the present tense, they have slightly different conjugations from AR verbs, they have different conjugations also in the preterate tense. And that's what we're going to look at today. Let's take Comer, your suggestion. Rather than Aveli, avlaste, avlo, we're going to use different endings here. And those endings are commie. Comi. Comi Comeiste Comeo Comeo

Okay So comie Comey Comey Comeiste Comey Comey Comeo

Okay So that is slightly different From the A-R verbs with A-a-a-a-est-O This time we've got I I-iste

I I I-iste-I-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e. Comey, comiste, comeo. Comey, comest, comeo. So, comiste, what would that mean? You ate. You ate or did you eat?

Okay. Comey? I ate. I ate or I did eat, I suppose. And come you? He or she or ate ate? Exactly. Comio, the third person singular.

Now, when it comes, to the first person plural, the we part, we say, comimos. Comimus. Now, do you remember when we were looking at Alar? We found out that Ablamos, the preterate form, is exactly the same as Ablamos, the present form. So we

speak and we spoke are both translated exactly the same way in Spanish with Avlamos. assuming you're using the preterate tense. Now think of Comer, meaning to eat. How would you say we eat in the present tense? Comeemos.

Comeemos. Okay, so you're using the E or the E sound, the letter E, of the infinitive, Comer, and putting that into the verb, comemmos, comemmos. That's the present tense of comer. When you're using the preterate tense, it becomes comimus. Comimus.

Comimus. Comimus. So, comi, comiste, comeo. Comey, comio. Comimus? Comimus. Kara, can you guess what the U-plural Spanish, the Spain version, form is? Commistees?

Comistees, exactly. Comistees. Comistees. And the V form, or indeed the U, polite plural form, is Comeyeron. Comieron. Comeron. Okay, so we've got,

Comey, Comiste, come you? Comey, comio. Comimis, comest, comieron. Comimus, comestis, comieron. Very well. Okay, I'm going to say this once and then I would like you to repeat it. That's the listener repeating. And then Kara will repeat. So let's go through the whole conjugation of comer in the preterate tense. Comi, comiste, comio. And then the plural forms, comimos, comisteys, comieron. I just watched the comisteis cameeran. I just watched the comisteys. Comisteys.

Comisteys? Comisteys. Comisteys? Comimus, comisteys comieron. Comimus, comestis, comier. Very well. Let's try the whole thing again. Comey, comiste, comio,

comimus, comieron. Comey, comest, comio, comimus, comestays, comieren. Very well. Now that was Comer. Comer meaning

To eat. To eat. It also has that kind of specific meaning of to have lunch. Comer La Comida

is the meal in the middle of the day. Can you remember what the word for the meal at the end of the day is? Well, I think the verb to have dinner

is thanar but I'm not sure about the word for the meal, the noun. Yeah. Thenar is exactly right, or senar in Latin America. Cener means to dine or to have dinner.

So la cena is the word for dinner in the evening. La Cena. This will vary slightly depending on which country or which Spanish-speaking country you're most familiar with. But in Spain, la comida at lunchtime, comer and la Cena at dinner time in the evening, la Cena. And you're also kind of getting something for nothing with comida because la comida is both the word for the meal that you have at lunchtime and also the general

word for food just as comer means to eat at lunchtime to have lunch and it's also the general verb to eat comer comer comeree comiseste comio comimus comiste and comieron Comey, comiste, comeo Comey most comestes, comiere. Very good. Okay, that's Comeer and that is to eat.

Let's take another ER verb. We could take, for example, Bender, Bender To sell. Very good. Bender to sell. So, you would say,

I sold. Bendie? Bendie. You sold. Bendiste? He, she, it or you polite sold? Bendio. Very well.

Bendi, bendiste, bendio. Bendie, bendiste, bendio. Now, we sold? Bendimos. Bendimos. You plural in Spain sold? Bendistees. Bendiste.

And they sold. Bendieron Bendieron And that's also used, of course, for the U plural polite and indeed U plural in Latin America

So that's Bender Another example of an ER verb We've had commere So you should now be fairly familiar With the ER verbs In the preterate tense Okay, we'll be back in just a moment Now if you'd like to get more

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All of our premium courses are available at the Coffee Break Academy. That's at coffeebreakacademy.com. Okay, let's get on with the lesson. Now there is another conjugation and that other conjugation is for IR verbs. I are verbs indeed. But before we get onto that let's think a little more about when we use the preterate. The preterate tense is used in what situation, Kara? In the past when you're talking about something that happened once? Yeah, exactly. You're talking about something that happened, an event that occurred. So if you're talking about something, for example, we give the example last week of,

I got up, I washed, I had my breakfast, I left the house and so on. And this is individual actions which happened once. These are all talked about in the preterate tense. In English, we have a variety of tenses that we use to talk about the past. I did, I have done, I had done, I was doing and so on. And it's the same in Spanish. But if you think about a narrative tense, think almost of a children's book. He slayed the dragon.

He rescued the princess. The princess embraced him. They fell in love. Okay, we'll come back to that falling in love thing a little later, because after all, it is Valentine's Day this week. Anyway, I've got some good news for you. We're going to go on to IR verbs now in the preterate tense. I'll never believe this. I are verbs sound quite familiar.

Let's take the example of sobier. You mentioned it earlier. Sobier. Subir. Now, if I say to you that I went up is subi. Subi. You went up as Suviste. Soviste. And he, she or it went up as subio. Subio.

We went up, Subimos. Subibos. You all went up in Spain. Subistais. Subistais? They went up. Subiaron. Subiaron.

Does that sound at all familiar? It sounds very, very familiar, Mark. It's exactly the same as ER verbs in the preterate tense. So ER and IR verbs, regular verbs, form their endings in the preterate tense, in exactly the same way. Let's take Subi, Subi, Subis Subi, Subi, Subi

Subi, Subis, Subi Subiis, Subiouis, Subiyos, Subjian. Subimus Subiis, Subiorn. Very well, okay, this time I'll say the whole thing from beginning to end, I'll leave a space, and then Carter will repeat after you, the listener.

So, Subi, Subisste, subiste, subio, Subim, Subi, Subi, Subi, Subi, Subi, Subi, Subi, Subi, Subi, subiste, subio, Sovima, so bestis, soviestes. Sovistas. I find it really difficult to say.

It's really difficult to say. And the thing is, to be perfectly honest, if you're in Latin America, you'll not be using that word much. So it probably doesn't really need to be learned. However, as we said last week, I think it works with the rhythm. And also it's really important for recognizing it.

Because if you're reading any Spanish or listening to any Spanish, there's a good chance that you will hear that form, even if you're in Latin America. where it tends not to be used. So we've got Soeer as an example of an IR verb. Let's take another example of an IR verb. Let's take Abriar.

Abriar. What does Avrier mean? To open. To open. So I opened. Abri. Abri. That was a very Scottish accent there, Cara.

Abri. Abri. Abriest. Avriest. That would be you opened. What would he, she or it opened? be. Avriot. And to say we opened, you would say? Abrimos.

Abriamos. You all opened? Abriestais. What's your stress? Abristeys? Abristes. Abriestes. Abriestes. And they opened. Abrieroeroon. Abrieroon. Very well. So you have got two verbs for the price of one or two conjugation. for the price of one this week. The ER verbs and IR verbs, regular verbs,

in the preterate tense, both take their endings in exactly the same way. So that's iiste yo. Imos istais yeron. I iste yeah. Imos estes errone. Now next week we're going to be looking at

some irregular verbs in the preterate tense and that's where things do change quite a bit. Take, for example, the verb ear. Ear means... To go. To go. And how do you say I go? Boy.

Boy doesn't have much to do with ear, does it? Not at all. Okay, well, let's take this a step further. And the preterate tense, ear becomes foe. Fui? Fee, yeah. It's got nothing whatsoever to do with ear or indeed boy. It's a completely separate idea.

However, it's still related. But we'll be learning more about that next week. And when we come to do our verbs next week, when we're coming to talk about the preterate tense of some irregular verbs like to go, to do, and other things like that, we're going to be doing that in a kind of specific situation. And this is all because Kara told me something before we started recording tonight. Is that right, Kara? Yes. Kara, how do you name? Antonio. Antonio. And who is Antonio?

My amigo? Tuamigo or maybe your nobio. Yes, it's my noviour. Okay.

Now, I don't know if our listeners will know the difference between nobio

and amigo probably you will because I think we've done this before. Nobio means

boyfriend. Amigo would just mean friend. So Kara's got a new boyfriend and it just so happens

is a and it just so happens. It's Spanish. Is Spanish. Puedes Practicar your Spanish with Antonio, no? Claro that yes.

Very well. If you notice a sudden improvement in Kara's Spanish because she's been practicing very hard with Antonio. Anyway, next week we're going to be putting Kara on the spot. Because this summer is the Fiesta of San Valentin. Yep, it's Valentine's Day. And that means that next week we'll be able to ask Kara where she went, what she did, did she go out,

and all these kind of things associated with the preterate tense. she can tell us what she did, but she's going to need some irregular verbs for that. So we'll put her to the test next week after we've learned some of the irregular verbs in the preterate tense. And that's where we're going to leave it today for this edition of Coffee Break Spanish.

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