Module 4 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A2, completed), lesson 4 of 30: Questions wrap the past as always: ¿Dónde estuviste? On this page: 7 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
| Spanish | English | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| ¿dónde estuviste? | where were you? | DOHN-deh ehs-too-BEES-teh |
| ¿tuviste un buen día? | did you have a good day? | too-BEES-teh oon bwehn DEE-ah |
| yo no pude venir | I could not come | yoh noh POO-deh beh-NEER |
| ella no vino | she did not come | EH-yah noh BEE-noh |
| mucho tiempo | a long time | MOO-choh TYEHM-poh |
| salir | to go out | sah-LEER |
| yo salí temprano | I went out early | yoh sah-LEE tehm-PRAH-noh |
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
Questions wrap the past as always: ¿Dónde estuviste? ¿Tuviste un buen día? ¿Vino ella? Negation closes on the verb: No pude venir. Ella no vino.
Salir (to go out, to leave) is regular in the pretérito: salí, saliste, salió. Esta mañana salí temprano. Mucho tiempo — a long time — measures how long it all took.
no goes right before the past verb, with nothing in between: no pude venir, ella no vino. Never no ella vino.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
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