Spanish Language Learning Exercise: Identifying Correct Phrases
Which phrase means "I bought the sweatshirt at the mall"?
B. Compraste la sudadero en el centro comercial.
C. Compró la sudadero en el centro comercial.
D. Compré la sudadero en el centro comercial.
Answer: The right answer is, D. Compré la sudadera en el centro comercial. Explanation: Identifying the narrator, gender, number, and time indicated by a sentence is the first step that must be taken. This is very important to be able to logically conjugate the verbs, and that these have concordance with what is being expressed. In this case, the narrator is in the first person singular and referring to an action he did in the past tense. Therefore, the sentence that best describes what is stated is option D.
Which step is important in order to correctly conjugate verbs when learning a new language?
The important step is to identify the narrator, gender, number, and time indicated by the sentence.