Spanish has two common, simple past terms for talking about the past: the preterite and imperfect tense. They're both used for quite different circumstances: the preterite for single, completed actions, and the imperfect for continuous or habitual actions in the past. Here's a brief guide to using them, with some simple examples in the first person singular (yo - I) form!
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