Ser y Estar

[ricktoronto]

Sorry ricktoronto but I have the present tense of ser and estar down. The problem is the past tense. In my old age my mind doesn't work like it used to, if it ever did, and I'm having trouble with fui and estaba. With examples my mind has a better chance of absorbing the information and I have yet to find examples and therefore have asked this board if they could in fact give some examples with the different personel pronouns using the words fui for ser and estaba for estar. :nervous:

May I suggest this most excellent book:

The Red Pocket Book of Spanish Verbs : 333 Fully Conjugated Verbs (Paperback)
by Ronni L Gordon, David M Stillman

Every common verb and the 30 most common conjugated in all 14 tenses plus for the top 30 extra examples (ser and estar of course) and it is pocket sized and a whole $7.

Don't panic but the preterit past tense for ir is the same as ser (Fui, fuiste, fue, fuimos, fueron, etc.) . Yow! Two for one.

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...103-3493347-4215011?v=glance&s=books&n=507846