Past Tenses: General

Just like in English, there are numerous types of past tenses in Spanish.

We will learn each of these separately and later we will learn how to combine them.

Please note that the following table illustrates the Spanish-English equivalents, though their use in NOT identical.

	Spanish	English
1.	Pretérito indefinido	Past simple
2.	Pretérito indefinido + Gerundio	Past progressive
3.	Pretérito perfecto	Present perfect
4.	Pretérito perfecto + Gerundio	Present perfect progressive
5.	Pretérito imperfecto	Past imperfect
6.	Pretérito imperfecto + Gerundio	Past imperfect progressive
7.	Pretérito pluscuamperfecto	Past perfect
8.	Pretérito pluscuamperfecto + Gerundio	Past perfect progressive
9.	Combining all tenses
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