Lesson 60

We Spoke or We Speak?

Language Transfer Complete Spanish is by Mihalis Eleftheriou. Listen to the original audio first; use these notes for revision.

The "we" preterite for -AR verbs is identical to the present: hablamos = we speak OR we spoke. Context clarifies — the rest of the sentence tells you which one. For -ER/-IR: comimos/vivimos (different from present comemos/vivimos).

Cuando = when. Ayer = yesterday. A menudo = often.

Nos perdimos = we got lost ("we lost ourselves"). Siempre nos perdemos = we always get lost.

Sentences practiced

Spanish	English
Hablé.	I spoke.
Habló.	He spoke.
Hablamos.	We spoke (or we speak).
Cuando hablamos, comprendo todo.	When we speak, I understand everything. (present)
Cuando hablamos, comprendí todo.	When we spoke, I understood everything. (past)
Hablamos ayer.	We spoke yesterday.
Hablamos mañana.	We'll speak tomorrow. (same form, different context!)
Esperamos mucho.	We wait a lot.
Esperamos mucho ayer.	We waited a lot yesterday.
Comemos.	We eat.
Comimos.	We ate.
No comimos.	We didn't eat.
Vivimos.	We live. / We lived. (context clarifies)
Vemos.	We see.
Vimos.	We saw.
Salimos.	We leave. / We left.
Perdemos.	We lose.
Perdimos.	We lost.
Nos perdimos.	We got lost.
Siempre nos perdemos.	We always get lost.
Pero no nos perdimos ayer.	But we didn't get lost yesterday.
No salimos a menudo.	We don't go out often.
Pero salimos ayer.	But we went out yesterday.