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Do you know how to furnish a simple description of a recent vacation in Spanish?
Welcome to Three Step Spanish Practice by SpanishPod101.com. In this lesson, you will practice describing fun activities and memorable moments from a recent vacation using reflexive verbs in the preterite tense.
Let's look at the main dialogue.
Two people are having a conversation.
¿Qué hicieron allá?
"What did you do there?"
Nos levantamos temprano todos los días. Un día nos bañamos en un cenote y otro día nos relajamos en la playa.
"We got up early every day. One day we swam in a cenote and another day we relaxed on the beach."
[Nos levantamos] and [nos bañamos] and [nos relajamos]
We've seen how reflexive verbs in the preterite tense describe things you did on your trip, like getting up or relaxing.
We follow this sentence pattern:
[Reflexive pronoun] + [reflexive verb in preterite] + (complement).
For example, we heard the sentence:
Nos levantamos temprano todos los días, meaning "We got up early every day."
Here, nos levantamos means the action was done by us and to us—"we got up ourselves."
To conjugate levantarse "to get up" in the preterite, we say:
me levanté, te levantaste, se levantó, nos levantamos, se levantaron.
We also saw examples like:
Nos divertimos mucho and nos olvidamos del trabajo, meaning "we had a lot of fun" and "we completely forgot about work."
These follow the same pattern using reflexive verbs:
nos divertimos, from divertirse, and nos olvidamos, from olvidarse.
Let's practice using reflexive verbs in the preterite tense to describe fun activities, daily routines, and memorable moments from your past vacations.

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