📖LearnModule 5 · Lesson 13 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridgeUnit 3 · The two pasts, mastered
The pretérito club, complete
Module 5 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridge), lesson 13 of 30: The irregular club closes with four more stems: querer gives quise. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
saber
to know (a fact)
sah-BEHR
yo supe
I found out
yoh SOO-peh
yo quise
I tried to
yoh KEE-seh
él no quiso
he refused
ehl noh KEE-soh
yo conocí a Leo
I met Leo
yoh koh-noh-SEE ah LEH-oh
yo traje
I brought
yoh TRAH-heh
andar
to walk
ahn-DAR
yo anduve
I walked
yoh ahn-DOO-beh
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.
La regla · The rule
The irregular club closes with four more stems: querer gives quise, saber gives supe, traer gives traje, andar gives anduve. Same endings as tuve and estuve: quise, quisiste, quiso, quisimos, quisieron.
Y también · And also
Three of them change meaning in the past: quise is I tried to, no quiso is he refused, supe is I found out, and conocí a Leo is I met Leo. The tense turns a state into the moment it began.
Ojo · Watch out
saber and conocer change meaning in the pretérito: supe is I found out (not I knew), conocí is I met (not I knew). The past tense names the moment the knowing began.
andar, pretérito — the table
yo anduve · tú anduviste · él/ella/usted anduvo · nosotros anduvimos · ustedes anduvieron · ellos/ellas anduvieron
saber, pretérito — the table
yo supe · tú supiste · él/ella/usted supo · nosotros supimos · ustedes supieron · ellos/ellas supieron
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with saber.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out andar, pretérito and saber, pretérito in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
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.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.