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The imperfect tense in Spanish is used to refer to an action that was ongoing in the past. For example, you would use the imperfect to say something like: Yo iba a tu casa cada semana. Note that this was ...

In general the preterite is used when something has been completed. If an action has a definite start and end then you should be using the preterite, this can be both if it is something that happened ...

The perfect tense is formed from : 
The auxiliary verb haber + the past participle of the verb , either ending in -ADO(-ar verbs) or -IDO(-er and -ir verbs) 
He hablado,...