Past tenses in Spanish

Spanish Past Tenses Overview 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ELITns6n2o There are four past tenses in Spanish; the perfecto, the indefinido, the imperfecto and the pluscuamperfecto. These four tenses dance together when we tell stories about the past or anecdotes… The four are necessary to express when the action happens, but also to set up the context of that past story. In this blogpost, I […]

Talk about the recent past in Spanish: Pretérito Perfecto de Indicativo 7

To talk about past experiences in an undefined time in the past, whether we don’t know exactly “when”, or just because it’s not important, we use the “Pretérito Perfecto de Indicativo” (Present Perfect). The pretérito Perfecto in Spanish is the tense used to talk about the recent past. However, it […]