GWARG SPANISH

Subject: GWARG SPANISH Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:41 am

Anyone have any tips for memorizing the irregular preterites in spanish, because im having some trouble?

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I found this online and there is a whole table with all the irregulars at this same site.

¹Dar
is
often humorously referred to as the "cross-dressing" verb, because in the
Preterite Dar takes on the Ir/Er
verb endings rather than Ar verb endings.
²Verbs with only 2 or 3 letters,
such as Dar, Ser, Ir and Ver, do not carry accent marks in the Preterite.
- Notice that ALL irregulars with radical changes
  in the stem
  don't
  use accent marks [like Estar, Hacer, Poner,
  Poder, etc.]
³ Irregulars which use a "J"
in the Preterite only add "-eron" (NOT "-ieron") to the third-person
plural [for example:
Decir, Traer, Conducir ] and don't use
accent marks.

*Note: Ir
and
Ser
share
the same forms in the Preterite. The context of a sentence or a conversation
will let you know which is being used. For example:

Fui al supermercado
clearly means "I went to the supermarket," not *"I
was to the supermarket."

http://www.drlemon.net/grammar/irreg-pret.html

Hope this helps!