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The Preterite of SER and IR: Spanish Classroom Printable Posters

The past tense of the verbs SER and IR has the exact same form. Students may find this challenging. That is why we created this infographic for Spanish teachers to print as a poster in three different sizes for the classroom: Letter, Legal and Tabloid sizes.

Preterite of SER and IR
Click here to use this poster in your classroom.

The infographic includes the following information for your students to review the preterite of SER and IR.

The Preterite of SER and IR: Describing Past Actions

In the preterite tense, the verbs SER and IR are irregular. Note that they have the same forms.

SER IR
YO fui fui
TÚ fuiste fuiste
USTED
ÉL/ELLA
fue fue
NOSOTROS
NOSOTRAS
fuimos fuimos
VOSOTROS
VOSOTRAS
fuisteis fuisteis
USTEDES
ELLOS/ELLAS
fueron fueron

The context in which the verb is used in the sentence will tell you if it is SER or IR.

You can also try to change the verb tense of the sentence and see if the sentence makes sense.

José fue a México.
José irá a México.

José fue policía.
José será policía

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