Quedabas

Quedabas is the second-person singular imperfect indicative form of the Spanish verb quedar. Quedar has several related senses, including to remain or stay in a place, to be located, to be left over, and in phrases like quedar con alguien, to arrange to meet someone. In its imperfect tense, quedabas expresses a past habit or an ongoing state involving the pronoun tú.

Conjugation in the imperfect: yo quedaba, tú quedabas, él/ella/usted quedaba, nosotros quedábamos, vosotros quedabais, ellos quedaban. This form is used to describe actions or situations that were habitual or continuous in the past, rather than completed.

Usage notes: quedabas commonly conveys a sense of continuity or repetition in the past. It can describe places where someone used to stay, conditions that persisted, or routines of meeting someone. When quedar is used with a reflexive meaning (quedarse), the form quedabas can appear in combination with reflexive pronouns, but its meaning shifts to a state of remaining or being in a location for a period.

Examples:

- De niño, quedabas en casa de tus abuelos durante las vacaciones. (As a child, you used to stay at your grandparents’ house during the holidays.)

- Antes quedabas con tus amigos a las cinco para jugar. (Before, you used to meet with your friends at five to play.)

Quedabas thus functions as a grammatical footprint of habitual past action or ongoing past states in the tú form, within the broader, multi-sense verb quedar.