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Junior Cycle Spanish: Preterite & other past tenses

How often Preterite & other past tenses comes up on the Spanish papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 5 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. banker

Preterite & other past tenses, Common Level(7 marks)

Quick ones on Preterite & other past tenses.

(a)What does 'Fui a Madrid' mean?
  1. I go to Madrid
  2. I went to Madrid
  3. I'm in Madrid
(b)How do you say 'I bought a present'?
  1. Compró un regalo
  2. Compro un regalo
  3. Compré un regalo
(c)'El verano pasado hicimos camping en Asturias.' What does it tell you?
  1. Last summer we went camping
  2. Every summer we go camping
  3. Next summer we will go camping
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(a) I went to Madrid

(b) Compré un regalo

(c) Last summer we went camping

Your turn: Common Level questions on Preterite & other past tenses.

Common Level

Asked on 5 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. banker

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q16, Q18
2025Q17, Q18
2024Q18
2023Q18
2022Q18

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Preterite & other past tenses questions

Preterite & other past tenses, 3 marks

What does 'He visitado Sevilla' mean?

  1. I will visit Seville
  2. He visits Seville
  3. I have visited Seville
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I have visited Seville

He + past participle is the perfect tense: he visitado = I have visited. Here he means I have, not the English word he. Visitaré = I will visit.

Preterite & other past tenses, 2 marks

'Mis padres fueron a Italia el año pasado.' Who went to Italy?

  1. My sons
  2. My parents
  3. My aunts
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My parents

Padres = parents (padre = father). Tías = aunts, hijos = sons or children. Fueron = they went: fui, fuiste, fue, fuimos, fuisteis, fueron. El año pasado = last year.

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