Your mission
Tell someone what you did, using the preterite for events that finished.
You should be able to do this from memory, without a hint, in a familiar situation.
- A2
- About 12 minutes
- 01Learn
Activity 01 · Orientation
Build the idea
Start with the essential idea and connect it to language you can use.
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The preterite is the tense for finished events — things that started and ended. It's how you say what you did yesterday, where you went last year, and what happened at the party.
This is the single biggest step up from A1. Once you have it, most of your conversations stop being stuck in today.