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in the verbs with -je preterite (decir, traer, and most verbs ending in -ducir) unstressed i is dropped between the j and a vowel: ellos trajeron, yo trajera... This does not happen with regular or vowel-raising -ger/-jer/-gir/-jir verbs ( proteger > protegieron , tejer > tejieron , corregir > corrigieron , crujir > crujieron ).
The pronouns yo, tú, vos, [1] él, nosotros, vosotros [2] and ellos are used to symbolise the three persons and two numbers. Note, however, that Spanish is a pro-drop language , and so it is the norm to omit subject pronouns when not needed for contrast or emphasis.
These forms are used only in positive expressions, not negative ones. The subjunctive supplements the imperative in all other cases (negative expressions and the conjugations corresponding to the pronouns nosotros, él/ella, usted, ellos/ellas, and ustedes). The imperative can also be expressed in three other ways: [7]
The preterite and the imperfect can be combined in the same sentence to express the occurrence of an event in one clause during an action or state expressed in another clause. For example: Ellos escuchaban la radio cuando oyeron un ruido afuera. (They were listening to the radio when they heard a noise outside.)
Below is a list of interrogative pronouns and phrases with the relative pronouns that go with them: qué – what, que – that, which; quién – who, whom (after prepositions), quien – who, whom (after prepositions) a quién – whom (direct object), to whom, a quien – whom (direct object), to whom; de quién – whose, of whom, cuyo ...
The preterite or preterit (/ ˈ p r ɛ t ər ɪ t / PRET-ər-it; abbreviated PRET or PRT) is a grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past; in some languages, such as Spanish, French, and English, it is equivalent to the simple past tense.
Ellos te lo dijeron = "They said it to you" Yo te me daré = "I will give myself to you" Vosotros os nos presentasteis = "You [pl.] introduced yourselves to us" Se le perdieron los libros = "The books disappeared on him" (lit. "The books got lost to him") The full and pronominal form of a reduplicated direct object must agree in gender and number:
In the Río de la Plata region, both the tú-conjugation and the voseo conjugation are found, the tú-form being more common. In this variety, some studies have shown a pragmatic difference between the tú -form and the vos -form, such that the vos form carries information about the speaker's belief state, and can be stigmatized.