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Spanish Spelling Changes in Preterite Verbs

Learn how to conjugate -car, -gar, -zar verbs in the preterite tense in Spanish and understand the spelling changes that occur. Practice conjugations and pronunciation examples included.

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Spanish Spelling Changes in Preterite Verbs

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  1. Spelling changes in the preterite -car, -gar, -zar verbs

  2. ¿Cómo se dice…? …the él/ella form of “buscar” in the preterite? …the yo form of “buscar” in the preterite? How do you pronounce this word? buscé It’s a “soft” c. To make a “hard” c you must add qu. busqué

  3. ¿Cómo se dice…? …the él/ella form of “pagar” in the preterite? …the yo form of “pagar” in the preterite? How do you pronounce this word? pagé It’s a “soft” g. To make a “hard” g you must add a u. pagué

  4. ¿Cómo se dice…? …the él/ella form of “almorzar” in the preterite? …the yo form of “almorzar” in the preterite? How do you pronounce this word? almorzé Spanish doesn’t allow “ze” or “zi”, so it changes to… almorcé

  5. -car verbs (cqu) practicar practiqué practicamos practicaste practicasteis practicó practicaron practicó practicaron -zar verbs (zc) comenzar comencé comenzamos comenzaste comenzasteis comenzó comenzaron comenzó comenzaron -gar verbs (ggu) jugar jugué jugamos jugaste jugasteis jugó jugaron jugó jugaron Bringin’ it todo junto Why does this happen? It’s all because of the “-e”. It’s a spelling change; not a pronunciation change!

  6. Think about English • Some words change spelling when in the past tense • You panic. (present) • You panicked. (past) • I stop. (present) • I stopped. (past)

  7. ¡A trabajar! Cuaderno: pág. 275 todo

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