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Old May 03, 2012, 06:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Bauval View Post
Hi all,

forgive me if this has been asked already but I have been practising past and present conjugations today and it has occurred to me that for verbs ending in IR, the Nosotros form is the same for past and present. For example Vivir, we live is vivimos but also we lived is vivimos? Am i missing something very obvious? How do you distinguish or is it not possible without context?

Thanks
You are correct, the context is needed to know which tense is meant. This is also the case or -ar verbs as well, so only -er verbs differentiate. I find it very confusing.

Further, all new verbs are -ar verbs, so that number is growing. By the way, always state which past tense is meant, because there are quite a few. You mean the preterite.
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