Preterit U, J, I Group Notes

Preterit U J I Groups

Spanish 2 Honors

Preterit Notes

Some verbs in the preterit change stems in
ALL the forms and have slightly different ENDINGS than our regular preterit verbs. They use the following endings. You will notice that these endings are a combination of our regular -AR endings and -ER/-IR endings, BUT without ACCENTS!

Preterit U, J, I Groups Conjugation Endings

​e

​iste

​o

​imos

​isteis

​ieron

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U Group Stems

tener (______________)

andar (_____________)

estar (_____________)

poder (_____________)

poner (_____________)

saber (_____________)

​tuv

​anduv

​estuv

​pud

​pus

​sup

I Group Stems

hacer (______________)

querer (______________)

venir (______________)

*Remember the ‘c’ changes to ‘z’ in the él/ella/usted form

​hic

​quis

​vin

J Group

decir (______________)

traer (______________)

Any other verbs that end in -cir will also fall in this group.

** The ‘i’ flies away after the ‘j’ in they (ellos form) - Ellos dijeron y trajeron.

​dij

​traj

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