Spanish preterite (pretérito perfecto)
We use the past tense, also called pretérito perfecto in Spanish or preterite in English, for events that happened at a specific point in time in the past. We usually indicate this specific point by using a time expression.
Here are some common past tense time expressions in Spanish:
ayer - yesterday
anoche - last night
el martes pasado - last Tuesday
el martes - on Tuesday (if we use it with the preterite, it implicitly means last Tuesday)
el viernes por la noche - On Friday night
Examples:
Ayer a las siete fui al supermercado. (Yesterday at seven I went to the supermarket.)
El lunes por la noche fui al parque. (On Monday night I went to the park.)
El jueves pasado fuimos al gimnasio. (Last Thursday we went to the gym.)
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