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2 -AR Preterite Verbs -car and –gar Endings Realidades

3 Preterite Verbs Preterite means “past tense” Preterite verbs deal with “completed past action” The ending tells who did the action.

4 -AR Preterite Endings Just as -o, -as, -a, -amos, -an tell you that the action takes place in the present, -é, -aste, -ó, -amos, -aron, tell you that the action took place in the past.

5 -AR Preterite Endings é aste ó amos aron

6 Preterite -ar verbs that have a stem change in the present tense do not have a stem change in the preterite. Juego - jugé

7 Preterite In the preterite, verbs whose infinitive ends in -gar or -car have a spelling change in the yo form. All of their other preterite forms are regular.

8 Preterite pagaryo pagué llegaryo llegué jugaryo jugué

9 Preterite Cuándo llegaste al teatro? Llegué a las ocho.

10 Preterite sacaryo saqué buscaryo busqué tocaryo toqué