Word
Yo no veía el kiosco aquí.
Meaning
I did not use to see the kiosk here.
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about Yo no veía el kiosco aquí.
Wait, why is veía considered irregular? It ends in -ía just like regular -er verbs in the imperfect.
It is slightly irregular because it keeps the e from the infinitive ver. A truly regular verb drops the entire -er ending before adding -ía (for example, comer becomes comía). If ver were completely regular, it would become vía, which is not a real word! Instead, we get veía.
Why does the translation say "used to see" instead of just "didn't see"?
The imperfect tense describes ongoing, background, or repeated actions in the past. Translating it as "did not use to see" perfectly captures that this was an ongoing, habitual situation over a period of time, rather than a single event. If it were a single, one-time event, you would use the preterite tense (vi).
Do I have to include yo in this sentence?
What exactly is a kiosco in Latin America?