Indica cómo o qué era alguien en el pasado.
Says how or what someone was in the past.
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Mi abuelo era carpintero. — My grandfather was a carpenter.
¿Cómo era tu casa de niño? — What was your house like as a child?
La película no era tan larga como esperaba. — The film was not as long as I expected.
Vivimos en la era digital. — We live in the digital era.
Aquella fue una era de grandes inventos. — That was an era of great inventions.
¿Cuándo empezó la era industrial? — When did the industrial era begin?
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Download the app for free Spanish vocabulary testTwo different words that happen to be spelled alike. One is the imperfect of ser — yo era and él era, with nothing but context to tell them apart — and the other is a feminine noun meaning an age or period: la era digital.
The verb sits on a split English does not have. Era describes how things stood: mi abuelo era carpintero, that is what he was. Fue closes the fact off as a finished episode. English has one was for both, so the choice has to be made from scratch every time. Ser is also one of only three Spanish verbs with an irregular imperfect; the others are ir and ver.
fue was — the preterite
The same English word from the other Spanish past. Era paints the background; fue reports the event.
la era an era, an age
The noun on its own card. Spelled identically, feminine, and unrelated to the verb.
edad age
A person's age, or a historical age in the sense of Edad Media. Era is the stretch of time, edad the count of years.
siglo century
A measured hundred years. An era is defined by what happened in it, not by its length.
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