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preterit(e) N LING

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Use of the preterite is found almost exclusively with "strong" verbs, i.e. verbs involving ablaut.
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The subjunctive shows more regularity, with no stem vowel differences in singular versus plural and identical endings in both present and preterite.
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The preterite form "would" is used in some conditional sentences, and as a past form of future "will" as described above under.
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This is the easiest way to distinguish preterite forms of wien from present tense forms.
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For example, the verb estar, when conjugated in the third-person plural of the preterite, becomes estuvieron.
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As the only difference between the historical classes 3b and 4 was the preterite plural, these two classes are now identical.
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Conjugation includes three persons, two numbers (singular and plural), three moods (indicative, imperative and subjunctive), and two tenses (present and preterite).
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The first example, being the preterite, refers only to actions completed once in the remote past, or distant past.
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These verbs derive from the subjunctive or optative use of preterite forms to refer to present or future time.
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There are four inflectional forms of the verb traditionally called aorist, preterite, negative preterite and intensive.
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