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The sentence is incorrect. The right grammar would be 'Cuando era pequeño, jugaba a balconcesto todos los días'. This is because it is a habitual action in the past so we use the imperfect tense instead o...

The imperfect subjunctive can be introduced by four different tenses: the preterite, the imperfect, the conditional and the past perfect. It is often used in clauses like "If I were younger, I would ...

This is a tricky grammatical question that is asked a lot by students, but there are several differences between the two. Perhaps the most important difference is that el pretérito is used to ref...

'Por' and 'Para' often cause confusion because both can be translated in English as 'for'. The best way I have found to understand this is using the example of presents. Consider the phrase 'I a bought th...

The preterite and imperfect tenses have different conjugations, which it is necessary to learn by heart. In terms of usage, whilst they both refer to actions that have taken place in the past, they do hav...