I have been having a really hard time determining when to use the preterite tense and the imperfect tense. One thing that has sort of helped me is thinking about it in terms of infinite and ongoing. What I mean by infinite is if it is a specific event in the past as in its over and done with then it is in the preterite form. However if it is a ongoing or a broad statement such as "on Saturdays I use to go to the super market" then it is imperfect because it is not perfectly completed.
Los sábados yo uso para iba a la super mercado.
Ayer me comí una hamburguesa.
No me gusta la gramatica.
Yo tambien no me gusta la gramatica. Me gusta hablarlo. Puedo hablar poquito mas que tu, pero tengo muchas problemas con la gramatica.
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