Acciones para un mundo mejor: 'ir' imperfect plural persons | Spanish

Starter quiz

Match the Spanish and English.

tratar

⇔

to try, trying ✓

prestar

⇔

to lend, lending ✓

identificar

⇔

to identify, identifying ✓

engañar

⇔

to trick, tricking ✓

sonar

⇔

to ring, ringing ✓

poseer

⇔

to own, owning ✓
Match the Spanish and English.

gente

⇔

people ✓

grave

⇔

serious ✓

histórico

⇔

historical ✓

jefa

⇔

boss, manager (f) ✓

y media

⇔

half past ✓

solamente

⇔

only ✓
Which verbs are in the imperfect tense?

trabajaba ✓

prestabas ✓

voy

engaña
What is the 1st person singular (I) form of ‘organizar’ (to organise, organising) in the imperfect tense?

'organizaba' ✓
Which word is an adverb?

necesario

finalmente ✓

emocionado

importante

universal
When forming adverbs in Spanish, which form of the adjective is the ending -mente added to?

masculine

feminine ✓

plural

Match the Spanish and English.

actuar

⇔

to act, acting ✓

falta

⇔

lack, shortage ✓

probablemente

⇔

probably ✓

afortunadamente

⇔

fortunately ✓

rápidamente

⇔

quickly ✓

totalmente

⇔

totally ✓
Match the Spanish and English.

contribuir

⇔

to contribute, contributing ✓

amenaza

⇔

threat ✓

negar

⇔

to deny, refuse ✓

aliado

⇔

ally ✓

conocimiento

⇔

knowledge ✓

actualmente

⇔

currently ✓
Match the plural imperfect verbs with their meanings.

íbamos

⇔

we used to go ✓

ibais

⇔

you (pl) used to go ✓

iban

⇔

they used to go ✓

negábamos

⇔

we used to deny ✓

negabais

⇔

you (pl) used to deny ✓

negaban

⇔

they used to deny ✓
In the context of ‘ir’ and -ar verbs in the imperfect tense, which is the only form with an accent?

1st person plural (we) ✓

2nd person plural (you)

3rd person plural (they)
Which part of this sentence is an adverb? Voy a ir a los servicios rápidamente.

voy

ir

servicios

rápidamente ✓
To form Spanish adverbs with -mente, add this ending to the ______ form of the adjective.

'feminine' ✓

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ábamos, -abais and -aban are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person plural endings of -ar verbs in the imperfect tense.
‘ir’ is an irregular verb in the imperfect tense.
-íbamos, -ibais and -iban are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person plural forms of ‘ir’ in the imperfect tense.
Spanish adverbs ending in -mente (e.g. rápidamente) correspond to English adverbs ending in -ly (e.g. quickly).
To form adverbs ending in -mente, add this ending to the feminine form of the adjective (e.g. rápida - rápidamente).

Accents are present in several forms of 'ir' and -ar verbs in the imperfect tense.

Accents are only present in the 1st person singular (we) form of 'ir' (íbamos) and -ar verbs (-ábamos) in the imperfect tense.

Imperfect - verb tense used to talk about something that used to happen repeatedly
Adverb - word used to describe adjectives and verbs
-mente - suffix commonly used in Spanish adverbs, meaning -ly