Once you have the command of the present tense, the preterite is then taught. From Wordnik.com. [learning Spanish] Reference
Last Day, the preterite for the future in prophetic style. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Looking for a simple origin to Hittite's hi-class preterite. From Wordnik.com. [Looking for a simple origin to Hittite's hi-class preterite] Reference
A thousand different molecules waited in the preterite dung. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
He says that the verb querer changes meaning in the preterite. From Wordnik.com. [Querer en preterito] Reference
So attested urθanike must then be the middle perfect preterite. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
In the case of ‘leap,’ which has two preterite-forms, both employed by. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
It's nice to know I'm not the only one confused about querer in the preterite. From Wordnik.com. [Querer en preterito] Reference
I was doing a lesson on the preterite irregular verbs and one of the examples is. From Wordnik.com. [Preterite] Reference
Paleoglot: Looking for a simple origin to Hittite's hi-class preterite skip to main. From Wordnik.com. [Looking for a simple origin to Hittite's hi-class preterite] Reference
There are about eight very commonly-used verbs that are irregular in the preterite. From Wordnik.com. [Como se dice "plumber"? & discusson of Dictionaries] Reference
I understand the vos replaces the tú and you use the plural preterite verb with it?. From Wordnik.com. [Tu preterite form] Reference
Yet in real life conversation, the preterite dominates: I saw, he went, they did, etc. From Wordnik.com. [learning Spanish] Reference
We are no longer citizenry to be governed, we are preterite “C-types” to be managed. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Place Your Bets] Reference
I used the preterite in both cases but marked the verb estar incorrectly as copreterito. From Wordnik.com. [Pret�rito vs. Imperfecto] Reference
Thus, in all verbs the preterite and the past participle were the same and ended in — ED. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference
In preterite line they have pointed her here, to be in touch with Earth's gift for genesis. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
The other problem that I have had most is the use of preterite and imperfect tenses of verbs. From Wordnik.com. [a question] Reference
In the first clause, the preterite verb cerine precedes what may be two nouns, pul and alumnaθ. From Wordnik.com. [Etruscan syntactic inversion] Reference
The preterite stay outside, gossiping, showing their gums out of tension, moving their hands. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
The attempt to "save the money" has a defined beginning and end, so I would phrase it in the preterite. From Wordnik.com. [Querer en preterito] Reference
If, however we read the passage in the preterite tense, it may be understood either in a good or bad sense. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
Does anybody know where the use of - astes and - istes on the ending of verbs in tú form in preterite developed?. From Wordnik.com. [Tu preterite form] Reference
As to my question about the tu form in the preterite, I am a Spanish teacher so know and use the correct endings. From Wordnik.com. [Tu preterite form] Reference
You never may know in the preterite all perhaps that you would not believe that you ever even saw to be about to. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
I just put “and” between two perfectly preterite clauses, both of which are independently true of the subject. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Ombudsmanfail] Reference
This caused a new “weak” preterite (add a dental suffix to indicate tense: “walk – walked”) to be formed. From Wordnik.com. [The “may” and “might” follow-up « Motivated Grammar] Reference
While most of Spain uses the pp in the way Jessica describes, in Galicia, there is a tendency to use the preterite. From Wordnik.com. [C is for Conditional (the Third) « An A-Z of ELT] Reference
Really, any verb construct that doesn't lend itself to the preterite tense should be considered with deep suspicion. From Wordnik.com. [Alt Text: Twitter Away Your Life With Social Networking] Reference
Yet back in the 80's I had a teacher from Equador and she used tú with the correct preterite verb forms all the time. From Wordnik.com. [Tu preterite form] Reference
Susy, the tú form preterite endings - astes and - istes are colloquialisms and are just as incorrect as you think they are. From Wordnik.com. [Tu preterite form] Reference
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