visitar means: to visit, to call on, to come by, to tour
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In this conjugation lesson we are going to learn how to conjugate the verb visitar in the Pretérito tense of the Indicativo mood. It means we will see step by step how to create and translate forms of each grammatical person.

This lesson is specifically about the visitar verb conjugation. For an overview of Simple Tenses conjugation check the Simple Tenses Conjugation Chart.

We also have a Video Presentation on how to conjugate verbs in Pretérito. It’s embedded below, but using the above link you can find additional information on conjugation in this tense as well as explanation of special cases and exceptions.

How to translate Pretérito to English

Note that the English phrases provided below next to each conjugation are not direct translations from Spanish to English. They are usually the closest general equivalents. The example differences are:

• In Spanish conjugation, there is the form usted in the third person singular. But this person does not translate to the English third person singular. It translates to the so called formal you and uses the inflected form which is most often represented as he/she/it in English conjugation charts.
• Similar situation happens in the third person plural, where ustedes translates to the English plural formal you but uses the form which corresponds to the they form in English.
• Tenses are used differently in Spanish and English, so the actual translation should always take into account the context and focus on translating the meaning, not just words.
• In both languages each verb may have multiple meanings and not every meaning translates directly to the other language. Here also, the context and focusing on the particular meaning helps to create the most accurate translation.

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Step by step instructions

Pretérito belongs to the simple tenses group, which means that all of the conjugated forms are one word long. There are also compound (compuesto) tenses in the Spanish language, where each inflected verb form consists of two words.The verb visitar has a completely regular conjugation in the Pretérito tense of the Indicativo mood. It means that this verb simply follows the general rules for its conjugation group (-ar) without any exceptions or spelling corrections. The basis for this conjugation is the stem of the verb, so we have to begin by splitting the infinitive into a stem and an ending. It’s very easy to do. Simply remove two letters from the end of the infinitive and you have the ending — one of -ar, -er or -ir. What’s left is the stem. So for visitar:

• the stem is: visit-
• and the ending is: -ar

Use the stem visit- in each person as the basis for the conjugations, the common prefix that each of the forms begins with. Next, add to this regular stem the endings specific to each person. See the image on the side showing all the six endings. Notice the colors and shapes of the letters. It will help you find patterns and make it easier to remember these endings.Each grammatical person has a specific ending in each of the three conjugation groups -ar, -er, -ir. Add the regular ending -é for the first person singular to create visité:

• yo visité – I visited

Again add the regular ending -aste for the second person singular to create visitaste:

• tú visitaste – you visited

And add the regular ending -ó for the third person singular to create visitó:

• él visitó – he visited
• ella visitó – she visited
• usted visitó – (formal) you visited

And one more time add the regular ending -amos for the first person plural to create visitamos:

• nosotros visitamos – we visited
• nosotras visitamos – (feminine) we visited

And one more time add the regular ending -asteis for the second person plural to create visitasteis:

• vosotros visitasteis – (plural) you visited
• vosotras visitasteis – (feminine, plural) you visited

One more time add the regular ending -aron for the third person plural to create visitaron:

• ellos visitaron – they visited
• ellas visitaron – (feminine) they visited
• ustedes visitaron – (formal, plural) you visited

Hurray! The conjugation is now done. That’s the final result:

yo	visité	I visited
tú	visitaste	you visited
él/ella/usted	visitó	he/she/it visited
nosotros/nosotras	visitamos	we visited
vosotros/vosotras	visitasteis	you visited
ellos/ellas/ustedes	visitaron	they visited

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Next Steps to Perfection To practice this conjugation and test your skills check this Conjugation Exercise or the Memory Game To see other conjugation lessons for this verb choose another tense: PresenteImperfectoCondicionalFuturoPretérito Perfecto CompuestoPretérito PluscuamperfectoFuturo PerfectoCondicional PerfectoPretérito Perfecto Compuesto (subjuntivo)Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto A (subjuntivo)Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto B (subjuntivo)Futuro Perfecto (subjuntivo)  For exercises and examples related to visitar visit our Exercise section To see conjugation charts in all tenses for visitar visit the Conjugator To explore other learning materials visit the Study section

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