Traías

Traías is the second-person singular imperfect indicative form of the Spanish verb traer, meaning you were bringing or you used to bring. It expresses actions in the past that were ongoing, habitual, or not framed as a specific completed moment.

In the imperfect tense, -er verb endings are -ía, -ías, -ía, -íamos, -íais, -ían, added to the stem tra-. Therefore the forms are: yo traía, tú traías, él traía, nosotros traíamos, vosotros traíais, ellos traían. The accent on í in traías marks the standard stress pattern of the imperfect forms of -er verbs ending in -aíz, and aligns with the regular conjugation of traer in the imperfect.

Usage notes: traer is a transitive verb that often takes direct objects, sometimes with prepositional phrases or clitics. Traías can appear with an explicit object or with a broader past context: ¿Qué traías tú a la reunión? (What were you bringing to the meeting?) The form also appears in narrative or conversational past to describe repeated actions or routines.

Etymology and related forms: traer derives from a Latin root related to tragere/trahere, with the current imperfect forms following the general pattern for -er verbs in Spanish. Related forms include traía, traías, traía, traíamos, traíais, traían in the imperfect; present forms include traigo, traes, trae, traemos, traéis, traen.

See also: traer; Spanish verb conjugation; imperfect tense.