📖LearnModule 6 · Lesson 25 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1, first halfUnit 5 · The pronoun machine
Pronouns in the past
Module 6 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B1, first half), lesson 25 of 30: The pronoun keeps its parking spot in every past tense. 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
lo vi ayer
I saw him yesterday
loh bee ah-YEHR
le dije la verdad
I told him or her the truth
leh DEE-heh lah behr-DAHD
decir
to say
deh-SEER
no se lo digas a nadie
do not tell anyone
noh seh loh DEE-gahs ah NAH-dyeh
nadie
nobody
NAH-dyeh
algo
something
AHL-goh
ella trajo un pastel
she brought a cake
EH-yah TRAH-hoh oon pahs-TEHL
ayer
yesterday
ah-YEHR
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 pronoun keeps its parking spot in every past tense — right before the verb: lo vi ayer (I saw him yesterday), le dije la verdad (I told her the truth), se lo traje (I brought it to him).
Y también · And also
Traer has the strong pretérito the commonest verbs share: traje, trajiste, trajo, trajimos, trajeron — no accents, because the stress sits on the stem. Decir does the same: dije, dijiste, dijo. Read them, say them, and the pattern carries you.
Ojo · Watch out
The strong pretéritos carry no accent: traje, trajo, dije, dijo — the stress is on the stem. Never trajó or dijó. And the pronoun stays in front of them: se lo traje.
traer, pretérito — the table
yo traje · tú trajiste · él/ella/usted trajo · nosotros trajimos · ustedes trajeron · ellos/ellas trajeron
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with lo vi ayer.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out traer, 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.