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First of all this is a great question and one that many people ask.We use 'por' when we want to talk about things such as mode of travel, duration and motivation (explaining why you did something). When u...

The imperfect subjunctive is formed by taking the root of the first person preterite (e.g. the verb 'comer' - 'to eat' - becomes 'comi') and adding the following endings:
-iera (e.g. comiera)-ieras...

This is something almost all English speakers learning Spanish struggle with, particularly since all the rules seem to have exceptions!Generally speaking, you use 'ser' for characteristics (descriptions, ...

The preterite and imperfect are both past tenses in Spanish. In general, the preterite tense is used to describe actions that took place in the past and are completed, wh...

The perfect tense (eg. to have done something) in Spanish functions exactly as it does in English. We take the verb haber, which works like 'to have' in English and conjugate it:(yo) he(tú) has(él/ella/us...