Preterite vs imperfect
Fui or era, tuve or tenía: the two past tenses side by side, then a game that mixes them.
Choosing between the pretérito perfecto simple and the imperfecto is a grammar question, but getting the form wrong is what gives you away. Both tenses sit at A2, and the irregular preterites (fui, tuve, hice, pude) have to be memorised.
The game shows one form and asks whether it belongs to the tense on the card. With exactly these two tenses selected, every wrong form comes from the other one, which is the confusion you want to train.
Three questions a round, all 48 verbs, the tenses of this page preselected.
The tenses on this page
2 tenses
Pretérito Perfecto Simple
A2Pretérito Imperfecto
A2Example tables
From the free tables of the 48 verbs. Open a verb for all twenty tenses.
Serto be (permanent)
Pretérito Perfecto Simple
A2| yo | fui |
|---|---|
| tú | fuiste |
| él/ella/Ud. | fue |
| nosotros | fuimos |
| vosotros | fuisteis |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | fueron |
Pretérito Imperfecto
A2| yo | era |
|---|---|
| tú | eras |
| él/ella/Ud. | era |
| nosotros | éramos |
| vosotros | erais |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | eran |
Irto go, to move
Pretérito Perfecto Simple
A2| yo | fui |
|---|---|
| tú | fuiste |
| él/ella/Ud. | fue |
| nosotros | fuimos |
| vosotros | fuisteis |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | fueron |
Pretérito Imperfecto
A2| yo | iba |
|---|---|
| tú | ibas |
| él/ella/Ud. | iba |
| nosotros | íbamos |
| vosotros | ibais |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | iban |
Tenerto have, to hold
Pretérito Perfecto Simple
A2| yo | tuve |
|---|---|
| tú | tuviste |
| él/ella/Ud. | tuvo |
| nosotros | tuvimos |
| vosotros | tuvisteis |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | tuvieron |
Pretérito Imperfecto
A2| yo | tenía |
|---|---|
| tú | tenías |
| él/ella/Ud. | tenía |
| nosotros | teníamos |
| vosotros | teníais |
| ellos/ellas/Uds. | tenían |
The 48 verbs in these tenses
Each link opens the full table of the verb at the right mood.
More practice pages
Every tense in the app
The app trains the same tenses with 12 000 verbs, five games and a map that shows which tense to learn next.