VHL 4- quiz 5/12 Flashcards
(29 cards)
el consultorio
doctors office
el tobillo
ankle
imperfect tense (preterito imperfecto)
habitual actions, descriptions, things happening over unspecified time in the past.
what tense?Cuando era niño, siempre me enfermaba.
Imperfect Tense
key endings for imperfect tense
-ar: aba, abas, aba, ábamos, abais, aban
-er/-ir: ía, ías, ía, íamos, íais, ían
Preterite (Pretérito perfecto simple)
completed actions
Fui al médico ayer.-what tense?
Preterite
Siempre me sentía mal en invierno.
Imperfect
Yo dormía cuando el teléfono sonó.
Interrupting actions → Imperfect for background + Preterite for interruption
Used for impersonal or accidental actions.
Constructions with “Se”
structure for “se”
Se + indirect object (me, te, le, nos, les) + verb (3rd person)
Usually formed by adding -mente to the feminine form of an adjective
🐢 5. Adverbs
rápido →(translate to an adverb)
rápidamente
Use them to describe how an action was done.
🐢 5. Adverbs
a menudo
often
darse con
to bump into/run into
is there an accent on rapidamente
rápidamente
accent?–musica
música
Stress on the last syllable
Agudas
Accent only if they end in a vowel, -n, or -s: “café” (ca-FÉ)
agudas
Stress on the second-to-last syllable
llanas
Esdrújulas Always have an accent
(Stress on the third-to-last syllable) →
la radiografía
x-ray
el resfriado
cold (illness)
