volookix.blogg.se - Decir preterite endings

Si él me _ su nombre, lo buscaría en Facebook (subjuntive: imperfect preterit).Si me _ _ todo, te habría ayudado (subjuntive: pluperfect).Quiero que me _ lo que viste (subjuntive: present).Espero que tú _ _ (subjuntive: perfect preterit).¿Tú _ que él lo hizo? (indicative: simple conditional).Nosotros _ todo lo que sabemos (indicative: future simple).Como te _, pensaba en ella (indicative: imperfect preterit).Yo _ que está bien (indicative: present).Te lo _ (indicative: perfect preterit).The perfect preterit form is used to express the consequence when something is said in the future: Cuando hayas dicho lo que sabes, esto terminará (when you have said what you know, this will end).ĭigamos toda la verdad (let’s say all the truth) The pluperfect is used to express something we wanted to be said in a past situation: si me hubieras dicho la verdad, no hubiera pasado esto (if you had told me the truth, this wouldn’t have happened). The imperfect preterit form to mention something that we hope someone probably says it: Ojalá me dijera lo que sabe (if only he told me what he knows) The present form is used to express something we would like it to be said in the present: Espero me digas la verdad (I hope you tell me the truth). And it is usually introduced by the words: que, ojalá, espero (que), si…, cuando. Subjunctive is usually used to express wishes, wants and hopes.

Ustedes (you: plural) / ellos (They: mas.) / ellas (They: fem.) Let’s see the common forms of the subjunctive mode:

In Spanish, we also have two other verbal modes: the subjunctive and the imperative mode.

We use perfect conditional to express what we have communicated if something had happened: Si no sintiera miedo, se lo habría dicho (if I weren’t afraid, I would have told him).

We use the perfect future to express a statement we hope will be said: mañana ya te lo habré dicho todo (I will have told you everything tomorrow).

We use the pluperfect to express something we had already communicated before an action developed in the past: Antes de encontrarnos, ya te lo habíamos dicho (before we met, we had already told you).

We use the compounded perfect preterit to express something we have communicated for a while: He dicho lo mismo desde la semana pasada (I have said the same since last week).

We build compounded tenses using the verb ‘’HABER’’ (HAVE) and the past participle of the main verb, in this case decir -> dicho.

Let’s see some of the most used perfect tenses of the indicative mode.

We use the simple conditional tense to express thoughts that we would probably say in a hypothetical case: ustedes dirían que no (you would say not).Ĭompounded perfect preterit (Present perfect).

We use the future simple to communicate things we will express in a future time: nosotros diremos que sí (We will say yes).

We use the imperfect preterit to express something we communicated in the past but not in a determined time: él decía que no era así (he said that it was not in that way).

We use the perfect preterit tense to communicate something that we said on a punctual time: dijiste que estuviste bien (you said that you were fine).

We use the present tense to communicate a general statement: yo digo que es genial.

Ustedes (you: plural) / ellos (They: más) / ellas (They: fem)Īnalyze the previous chart and let’s review some examples. Él (he) / ella (she) / usted (you: formal) These are some examples of phrases in the indicative mode of this interesting verb. Be careful otherwise, you will have miscommunication problems in your writing.ĭecir is usually used before the word “que”. In Spanish, we have unspoken subjects, so it is not needed to use a pronoun every time as we do in English. Tú is used when you have confidence with the person you are talking to, usted is more formal and ustedes is used to mention more than one person we are directing to. However, in Spanish we have 3 important pronouns: tú, usted, ustedes. You is a pronoun which has different meanings. Today, we will work on the verb ‘’decir’’, let’s learn together! In these two cases, we use the same verb but in the case of English, we use it to say for the first statement and to tell for the second one. For example: ‘Él dijo que había conocido a una chica’, ‘Él me dijo que había conocido a una chica’. However, we use it differently, while the verb to say is used just to mention general statements and the verb to tell is used to communicate information with someone specific, we can use Decir with both meanings.

The verb “decir” is one of the most used verbs in the Spanish language.

Del dicho al hecho, hay mucho trecho: el verbo decir (to say)