miniprueba AR

regular preterite
verbs
más pretérito

http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=LpoFBlH4wMI
“Descontrol” Daddy Yankee
Algunos verbos “especiales”
Hay algunos verbos -AR con la forma de
YO irregular.

These irregular YO forms are spelling

changes in order to maintain the original
pronunciation of the infinitive.

The regular AR endings are still

used:
é amos
aste
ó aron
Hay 3 categorías de
irregularidades
Verbs that end with -CAR

Because in Spanish, just as in

English, the combination of CE
sounds like SE [cent, cell, etc.], the
C is changed to QU in order to
maintain the original pronunciation
[CA sounds like KA, but there’s no K
in Spanish so QU is used].
 Por ejemplo
practicar:

practiqué--NOT practicé
las otras formas son regulares:
practicaste
practicó
practicamos
practicaron
¿Practicaste un deporte el año
pasado? ¿Qué deporte?
 Otros verbos similares
tocar--to play an instrument, to touch

¿Tocaste un instrumento musical en el

pasado?

buscar--to look for

¿Buscaste algo anoche?

 Verbs that end with -GAR
Because GE sounds like a “soft G”, a U
game is added to maintain the “hard G” of the
go infinitive
gun
jugar--to play a game, sport

giant jugué--irregular
general
jugaste
jugó formas
jugamos regulares
jugaron
Otros verbos con -GAR
pagar--to pay, pay for

¿Cuánto pagaste por tus libros este

semestre?
 Verbs that end with -ZAR
For no good reason whatsoever, ZE is an impossible
combination in Spanish [rendering illegal my last
name....].
A ZE combination changes to CE
empezar comenzar--to start

empecé
¿A qué hora empezaste
empezaste tus clases el semestre
empezó pasado?

empezamos
empezaron
 Practicamos

Hand out:
Working in groups, ask your
partner questions in the preterite
[tú form--aste]
You’ll answer [yo form é]
Keep track of the other peoples’
answers. You’ll be telling me
what he or she did [ó]
 Exam I 11 feb --not the 4th
like on the syllabus
I will be
changing the
AR preterites [p. 156]
exam dates
ER/IR preterites [p. 156]
due to the
Direct Object pronouns [p. 129]
snow day.
Meals and eating customs
Numbers 0-1000 [pp. 18, 35, 70]
Cuba [p. 194]