Always – Siempre If you wanted to talk about something that ‘always’ used to happen, you will need to use the past imperfect.

Is siempre a preterite?

The prime example I gave was the two versions of the Spanish past tense: the preterite, or simple past, and the imperfect. … I was therefore surprised when a participant in Reddit’s /s/Spanish subreddit recently mentioned that siempre can occur with the preterite, too.

Is Cuando imperfect or preterite?

The conjunction cuando is almost always followed by the preterite tense because it indicates the specific moment of the action of the verb that follows it. The other verb in the sentence may be an ongoing action that is interrupted by the preterite verb. In such cases, the ongoing verb is in the imperfect tense.