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In Spanish, there are two past tenses: the preterite and the imperfect. It can be difficult to know when to use each one so it's important to learn a breakdown of when each tense should be used. Below I a...

The present of the subjunctive form is a relatively simple form to master in Spanish. To talk about feelings of doubt, desire, emotion, necessity, or uncertainty we use the present of the subjunctive in S...

The immediate future tense translates as 'going to...'. It describes an action that is about to take place in the near future, so you can use it for events likely to happen soon/immediately. By contrast, ...

First of all this is a great question and one that many people ask.We use 'por' when we want to talk about things such as mode of travel, duration and motivation (explaining why you did something). When u...

The imperfect subjunctive is formed by taking the root of the first person preterite (e.g. the verb 'comer' - 'to eat' - becomes 'comi') and adding the following endings:
-iera (e.g. comiera)-ieras...