The Spanish preterite tense is used to describe completed actions in the past. For example: Fui al cine ayer. - I went to the cinema yesterday. Viajamos en tren. - We travelled by train.

The contrastive use of the present perfect and the preterite in the Spanish-speaking world differs from region to region. For the Andean region, however, where Spanish is in contact with Quechua, it ...