Amasamos hasta el punto de que la masa cambió.

to change

Breakdown of Amasamos hasta el punto de que la masa cambió.

• la masa: the dough
• amasar: to knead
• hasta el punto de que: to the point that

Questions & Answers about Amasamos hasta el punto de que la masa cambió.

What form is amasamos here?

Amasamos is the 1st person plural form of amasar (to knead): we kneaded.

In this sentence, it is most naturally understood as the preterite (completed past action): we kneaded.

A useful thing to know: for many -ar verbs, the nosotros form in the present and the preterite looks the same:

• amasamos = we knead
• amasamos = we kneaded

So the context tells you which one it is. Here, cambió clearly puts the sentence in the past, so amasamos is understood as we kneaded.

Why doesn’t amasamos have an accent if it’s past tense?

Because in regular -ar verbs, the nosotros form of the preterite is written the same as the present:

• hablamos = we speak / we spoke
• trabajamos = we work / we worked
• amasamos = we knead / we kneaded

Spanish simply leaves this ambiguity to be solved by context. In your sentence, cambió makes it clear that the speaker is talking about a finished past event.

What does hasta el punto de que mean exactly?