Preterite of Irregular verbs

Preterite of Irregular verbs

Spanish II - Block 5

Irregular verbs in Spanish

• There are three "families" of irregular verbs in Spanish

• Today we are going to work with the "u" stem family.

• The verbs in this family are: "estar", "poder", "poner"', "tener" and "saber".

What is different?

• One common new stem works for all the conjugations.

• One new set of endings for each family will be used.

• No accent mark is needed for irregular preterite verbs.

Irregular preterites - "u" stem family

• The first verb of this family is "estar" (to be).

• In the shared document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l1aHh0Lyxwh_oaoE84Q7v0PYIFz2EjY6yv72jNNpCyY/edit?usp=sharing we find that the new common stem for this verb is "estuv".

• The new endings are: -e, -iste, -o, -imos, -ieron.

Irregular preterites - "u" stem family

• We put together the new common stem and the new endings:

• Yo estuve

• Tú estuviste

• él, ella uested estuvo

• nosotros, nosotras estuvimos

• ellos, ellas, ustedes estuvieron

Irregular preterites - "u" stem family

• As you can see, no accent was needed.

• All the subjects shared the same new stem: estuv

• Each subject used a different conjugation ending:

• -e, -iste, -o, -imos- ieron

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