He past It is a verb tense of Spanish and other Romance languages. It is used to refer to a action what was carried out simultaneously to another one from the past ; to an act that continue in the present ; or to a practice that was repetitive and frequent long ago .
It is generally indicated that the temporal limitations of the state described in the past tense are not important. His training is done with the root of the verb plus one ending which varies according to the conjugation: -aba / -abas / -aba / -abais / -aban / -ía / -ías / -iah / -íais / -ían.
Let's analyze a example : “We talked in the garden when it started to rain”. As you can see, the verb in the past tense ("We talked") refers to an action that was being developed at the same time that a different one was initiated ("it started to rain").
Let's take another case: “When I was a child, I spent the summer in Patagonia”. The speaker points out that, in his childhood, he used to spend summers ("Summer") in a certain region. The use of the past tense suggests that what was named was habitual.
It is important to mention that the past tense is also used to indicate an action in I presented in one way cuts . This use is common in telephone communications: “It bothered him to know if the results of my studies are available” (the nuisance referred to by the individual is still ongoing).
Plus prayers in the past tense: “We played without worries despite the storm”, “We laughed a lot by then”, "I called him to coordinate a new meeting", “My grandfather went too often to the casino”, "I slept when the explosion startled me".
