Fue - Preterite
Era - Imperfeect
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<em>Fue </em>is the preterite form of s<em>er</em>, so it's for a single point in time. Think of it as refering to something that happened in the past but which had a conclusive beginning and end. For example:
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<em>En la fiesta fue un borde. - At the party he was a jerk.</em>
He was a jerk at a definitive time, at the party, so use the preterite. Compare to this example:
<em>La casa era muy bonita antes del terremoto. - The house was lovely before the earhquake.</em>
Use the imperfect form of <em>ser</em>, <em>era,</em> in this case. Here the house is lovely up until a certain point, but not during a certain specified time. It was continuesly lovely for an unspecified time period. When you have unspecified times or repeated actions, use the imperfect.
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tiempo ejemplo
era imperfecto <em>era viernes</em><em> cuando mi hermano se fué de Colombia</em>
fue pasado simple mi padre se fué con lágrimas en sus ojos, pero esas lágrimas eran de
felicidad
Mirando ejemplos te vas a adecuar al uso del imperfecto, no es tan difícil.
Era es el presente de subjuntivo y fue el pasado simple del verbo ser
imperfect vs. preterite conjugation of the verb ser.
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