📌 Indefinite, Imperfect, Perfect or Pluperfect? In Spanish, we choose past tenses depending on how we see the action, not just when it happened. 🔹 Preterite (pretérito indefinido) We use it for actions that move the story forward. 👉 Ayer llegué, hablé con el jefe y firmé el contrato. (Yesterday I arrived, spoke to the boss and signed the contract.) 🔹 Imperfect (pretérito imperfecto) We use it to describe the background, circumstances or what was going on. 👉 Era tarde y la oficina estaba vacía. (It was late and the office was empty.) 🔹 Present perfect (pretérito perfecto) We use it for past actions that are connected to the present. 👉 He enviado el correo, así que ahora podemos esperar la respuesta. (I have sent the email, so now we can wait for the answer.) 🔹 Pluperfect (pretérito pluscuamperfecto) It shows that one action happened before another past action. 👉 Cuando llegué, ya había enviado el informe. (When I arrived, I had already sent the report.) 🧠 Key idea: The preterite moves the story, the imperfect sets the scene, the perfect connects the past with now, and the pluperfect looks further back.