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The Spanish preterite ("el pretérito") is generally used to describe actions that:
1) happened only once
(e.g., "I went to the store yesterday.")
2) happened more than once, but with a specific end
(e.g., "He read the book five times.")
3) mark the beginning or the end of a process
(e.g., "It began to rain.")
las terminaciones regulares del pretérito: verbos -AR
yo = é
tú = aste
él, ella, usted = ó
nosotros = amos
vosotros = asteis
ellos(as), ustedes = aron
las terminaciones regulares del pretérito: verbos -ER / -IR
yo = í
tú = iste
él, ella, usted = ió
nosotros = imos
vosotros = isteis
ellos(as), ustedes = ieron
CASO ESPECIAL 1: Verbs that have an e → ie or e → i root/stem change in the present tense also have...
...an e → i root/stem change in the 3rd-person forms of the preterite!

servir = sirvió, sirvieron
pedir = pidió, pidieron
CASO ESPECIAL 2: The verbs "morir" and "dormir" have the following 3rd person root/stem change in the preterite:
o → u

morir = murió, murieron
dormir = durmió, durmieron