📖LearnModule 9 · Lesson 12 of 30Independent User · CEFR B2, completedUnit 3 · El estilo indirecto en pasado
Ayer se convierte en el día anterior
Module 9 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B2, completed), lesson 12 of 30: Tenses are not the only thing that moves. On this page: 9 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
ese día
that day
EH-seh DEE-ah
el día anterior
the day before
ehl DEE-ah ahn-teh-RYOHR
al día siguiente
the following day
ahl DEE-ah see-GYEHN-teh
la semana siguiente
the following week
lah seh-MAH-nah see-GYEHN-teh
tres días antes
three days earlier
trehs DEE-ahs AHN-tehs
en aquel momento
at that time
ehn ah-KEHL moh-MEHN-toh
el punto de referencia
the reference point
ehl POON-toh deh rreh-feh-REHN-syah
deslizarse
to slide
dehs-lee-SAR-seh
ella había hecho la tarea
she had done the homework
EH-yah ah-BEE-ah EH-choh lah tah-REH-ah
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
Tenses are not the only thing that moves. Time words shift too, because the reporting happens later: hoy becomes ese día, ayer becomes el día anterior, mañana becomes al día siguiente.
Y también · And also
Ahora becomes en aquel momento, la semana que viene becomes la semana siguiente, hace tres días becomes tres días antes. Learn them as pairs and reported speech stops being frightening. Había hecho: hacer's participle is hecho, with its h — and no c.
Ojo · Watch out
ayer becomes el día anterior, mañana becomes al día siguiente, hoy becomes ese día, ahora becomes en aquel momento — only when the reporting is in the PAST. And the participle of hacer is hecho, never hacido.
hacer, pluscuamperfecto — the table
yo había hecho · tú habías hecho · él/ella/usted había hecho · nosotros habíamos hecho · ustedes habían hecho · ellos/ellas habían hecho
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with ese día.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out hacer, pluscuamperfecto 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.