construiste

Construiste is the second-person singular preterite tense form of the Spanish verb construir, meaning “you built” or “you constructed.” It marks a completed action in the past and is used with the subject tú, appearing in informal or familiar contexts across Spanish-speaking regions.

As a -uir verb in the preterite, construir has a characteristic spelling pattern in the third-person forms (él, ellos): construir becomes construyó in the singular and construyeron in the plural. The tú form, construiste, ends with -iste and carries no accent on the i. The full preterite paradigm is: yo construí; tú construiste; él/ella/usted construyó; nosotros construimos; vosotros construisteis; ellos/ellas/ustedes construyeron. This contrasts with the imperfect tense, construías, which describes ongoing or habitual past actions.

Usage notes:

Construiste is commonly used to narrate past events or report what you accomplished in a specific moment. In more formal writing, other verbs such as edificar or levantar might be chosen for stylistic reasons, but construiste remains the standard everyday form in speech. Like other preterite forms, it typically appears with time expressions such as ayer, la semana pasada, o en 2023.

Examples:

Ayer construiste una mesa con madera reciclada. ¿Construiste el prototipo como planearon?