(As a child, I went camping every summer.) Fui a cuatro restaurantes la semana pasada.To describe something that happened more than once, but had a specific end.To describe something that happened once.In very general terms, the preterite tense is used to refer to a single event that happened at a specific point of time or had a specific duration in the past, while the imperfect tense is used to describe ongoing events or events without a specific time period in the past. In Spanish, there are two simple past tenses: the preterite and the imperfect.
