📖LearnModule 5 · Lesson 14 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridgeUnit 3 · The two pasts, mastered
Me levanté — reflexives in the past
Module 5 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridge), lesson 14 of 30: Reflexives keep their pronoun in the pretérito. On this page: 6 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
yo me levanté
I got up
yoh meh leh-bahn-TEH
él se lavó
he washed
ehl seh lah-BOH
ella se acostó temprano
she went to bed early
EH-yah seh ah-kohs-TOH tehm-PRAH-noh
yo me apuré
I hurried
yoh meh ah-poo-REH
yo me vestí
I got dressed (past)
yoh meh behs-TEE
esta mañana
this morning
EHS-tah mah-NYAH-nah
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
Reflexives keep their pronoun in the pretérito, still in front: me levanté, te levantaste, se levantó, nos levantamos, se levantaron. Él se lavó. Ella se acostó temprano.
Y también · And also
Esta mañana me desperté a las seis y me apuré. The endings are the regular -ar ones; only the pronoun is new — and it was never optional.
Ojo · Watch out
me levanté carries the accent of every regular yo pretérito: me levanté, me duché, me acosté. Without it, me levante is a different form.
levantarse, pretérito — the table
yo me levanté · tú te levantaste · él/ella/usted se levantó · nosotros nos levantamos · ustedes se levantaron · ellos/ellas se levantaron
Do it now — on paper
Say all 6 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with yo me levanté.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out levantarse, 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.