Was in Spanish 🇪🇸

Pronunciation

Normal speech: EH-rah
IPA: ˈe.ɾa

8 months ago

Im trying

It was very good= era muy bien

2 years ago

Memory helper

Think of an ERA from long ago… That WAS in the past!

a year ago

era info.

**Tips to remember the word ‘era’:**
– ‘Era’ sounds like the English word ‘error,’ but without the ‘or’ sound at the end. You can think of an ‘error’ in time to remember ‘era’ refers to a period in time.
– ‘Era’ also begins with ‘e,’ the same letter that starts ‘época,’ which means ‘epoch’ in English, another word related to time periods.
– You might think of the historical phrase “Era of Good Feelings,” where ‘era’ identifies a historic period, making it easier to recall its meaning in both English and Spanish.

**Explanations:**
– In Spanish, ‘era’ is the imperfect tense of the verb ‘ser’ (to be) for the first and third person singular (yo, él, ella, usted).
– It expresses an action that was ongoing or habitual in the past.

**Other words that mean the same thing:**
– ‘Fue’ is also a past tense form of ‘ser’ but is used in the preterite, denoting an action that was completed in the past.
– ‘Estaba’ is the imperfect form of ‘estar,’ which also means ‘was’ but is used for transient states or locations.

**Alternate meanings and slang:**
– In a different context, ‘era’ can refer to a landed property, especially one devoted to agriculture.
– It does not have widely recognized slang meanings.

**Examples of sentences using ‘era’:**
– Yo era estudiante cuando vivía en México. (I was a student when I lived in Mexico.)
– Ella era mi mejor amiga en la escuela. (She was my best friend in school.)
– Era un día soleado y perfecto para un picnic. (It was a sunny day and perfect for a picnic.)
– ¿Era necesario decir eso en la reunión? (Was it necessary to say that in the meeting?)
– En esa era, las tecnologías no eran tan avanzadas. (In that era, technologies were not so advanced.)

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