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• Imperfect Tense

• Reflixive verbs

• Impersonal Verbs

• Stem Changing Verbs

• GO-GO verbs

Imperfect tense

Imperfect tense is used to talk about things that habitually happened in the past.

Imperfect tense is not affected by stem-changing or go-go verbs, it is however, affected by reflexive verbs. Example:

Levantarse

Me levantába

Te levantábas

Se levantába

Nos levantábamos

Se levantában

ER verbs e.g;comer

• Yo (I)- comía

• Tu (you impolite)- comías

• El/Ella/Usted (he/she and you polite)- comía

• Nosotros/as (we)- comíamos

• Ellos/Ellas/Ustedes (they)- comían

AR verbs e.g; mirar

• Yo (I)- mirába

• Tu (you impolite)- mirábas

• El/Ella/Usted (he/she and you polite)- mirába

• Nosotros/as (we)- mirábamos

• Ellos/Ellas/Ustedes (they)- mirában

IR e.g; vivir

• Yo (I)- vivía

• Tu (you impolite)- vivías

• El/Ella/Usted (he/she and you polite)- vivía

• Nosotros/as (we)- vivíamos

• Ellos/Ellas/Ustedes (they)- vivían

Reflexive verbs

Reflexive verbs ar verbs that end with 'se'.

To conjugate reflexive verbs put the 'se' aside for a while and conjugate the verb like you would a normal one.

Example:

Distraerse

Yo- me distraego

Tu- te distraes

El/ella/usted-se distrae

Nosotros- nos distraemos

Ellos/ellas/ustedes- se distraen

Go-go verbs

Go-go verbs are verbs which the ending on the yo form conjugates to go. As you may have noticed distraerse ends with is a go-go verbe as well as a reflexive verb.

Go-go verbs include tener-tengo and traer- traego.

Stem changing verbs

Stem-changing verbs aka boot verbs are verbs which has changes taking place within its stem.

Changes include:

I-IE

E-I

U-UE

O-UE

E-IE

Impersonal Verbs

An impersonal verb is a verb is a verb used within the third person singular and the third person plural. There should always be an agreement between the subject and the verb.

Impersonal verbs

There are five indirect object pronouns, they are: me, te, le, les and nos. Me, te and le are singular indirect object pronouns and nos and les are plural indirect object pronouns.

Impersonal verbs

There are several ways we can use impersonal verbs. They are:

Impersonal verbs with nouns e.g. Me gusta la uva.

Me is th impersonal verb and la uva is the noun.

Impersonal verbs with infinitives, e.g. Me gusta bailar.

Bailar is the infinitive and me is the impersonal verb.



Conjugation of impersonal verbs using prepositional phrases with indirect object prounouns.

• (Yo) A mi me encanta/encantan

• (Tu) A ti te Encanta/encantan

• A (El/ella/usted) le encanta/encantan

• A (Nosotros/as) nos encanta/encantan

• A (Ellos/ellas/ustedes) les encanta/encantan

Smartz

When doing impersonal verbs with prepositional phrases the key words are in the sentence. e.g.

Que me fascina a mi?

What fascinates me?

The words highlightened in red are to be switched around mi goin first and me going second don't forget to add A as the sentence could not be complete without it and your verb fascina should go after.

A mi me fascina ...

I am fascinated by ...