Past simple
El past simple expresa acciones terminadas en un momento concreto del pasado: yesterday, last week, in 2020, two days ago. Equivale al pretérito indefinido y muchas veces al imperfecto.
| tipo | forma | ejemplos |
|---|---|---|
| regular | -ed | work → worked, live → lived, study → studied, stop → stopped |
| irregular | de memoria | go → went, have → had, see → saw, buy → bought, get → got |
| to be | was / were | I / he / she / it was, you / we / they were |
Claves
- Una sola forma para todas las personas: I worked, she worked, they worked.
- Marcadores: yesterday, last …, … ago, in 2019, when I was a child.
Ejemplos
- I moved to Berlin two years ago.Me mudé a Berlín hace dos años.
- We went to the doctor yesterday.Ayer fuimos al médico.
- She bought a new laptop last week.La semana pasada se compró un portátil nuevo.
- It was cold, and the trains were late.Hacía frío y los trenes llegaban tarde.
- He studied law in Odesa.Estudió Derecho en Odesa.
Errores comunes
- ✗ She goed home.✓ She went home.Go es irregular y su pasado es went, no goed como podría esperarse de un verbo regular.
- ✗ She studyed hard.✓ She studied hard.Tras consonante la y cambia a i antes de -ed, por eso se escribe studied.
- ✗ I buyed a new phone.✓ I bought a new phone.Buy es irregular y su pasado es bought, y no se forma con -ed.
- ✗ We stoped at the shop.✓ We stopped at the shop.En los verbos cortos como stop se duplica la consonante final antes de -ed.
- ✗ I saw him before two days.✓ I saw him two days ago.El español hace dos días se expresa con ago después del periodo, y no con before.