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Preterite (it fit) yo cupe tú cupiste él/ella/Ud. cupo nosotros cupimos ellos/Uds. cupieron
Quepa 2008
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Preterite (it fit) yo cupe tú cupiste él/ella/Ud. cupo nosotros cupimos ellos/Uds. cupieron
Quepa 2008
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Preterite (it fit) yo cupe tú cupiste él/ella/Ud. cupo nosotros cupimos ellos/Uds. cupieron
Quepa 2008
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Preterite (it fit) yo cupe tú cupiste él/ella/Ud. cupo nosotros cupimos ellos/Uds. cupieron
Quepa 2008
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And festivals are ultimate sorting boxes: efficient machines for separating Elect from Preterite.
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It will be possible, after all, to die in obscurity, without having helped a soul: without love, despised, never trusted, never vindicated-to stay down among the Preterite, his poor honor lost, impossible to locate or to redeem.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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Nobody wanted to hear about all the Preterite, the many God passes over when he chooses a few for salvation.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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William felt that what Jesus was for the elect, Judas Iscariot was for the Preterite.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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Are they Elect, or are they Preterite, and doomed as dodoes?
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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Uses of the Past Definite (or Preterite) and the Present Perfect (as: Yo he comprado: I have bought).
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
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