invocaste

Invocaste is the second-person singular form of the Spanish verb invocar in the pretérito indefinido (preterite), meaning “you invoked” or “you called upon.” It is used to describe a completed action in the past in which the subject invoked something, such as a deity, a rule, or a precedent.

Origin and usage: Invocar comes from Latin invocare, “to call upon.” In modern Spanish it appears in religious, legal, literary, and everyday contexts, and it is also used in technical language to refer to calling or invoking a function in programming. The form invocaste is the preterite tú form; invocó is the preterite él/ella/usted form; invocaron is the preterite ellos/ellas/ustedes form. The present tense forms are invoco, invocas, invoca, invocamos, invocáis, invocan. The yo form in the preterite is invocqué.

Examples: “Tú invocaste al dios de la lluvia para pedir ayuda.” “El abogado invocó la Constitución para fundamentar su argumento.” In computing contexts, Spanish speakers sometimes say “invocar una función” to describe calling a function, aligning with the English term “invoke.”

Notes: Invocaste is chiefly a past-tense narrative form and can appear in literary or formal prose. The verb invocar belongs to the regular -ar conjugation group, with the typical stem changes occurring in the preterite for the yo form (invocqué) and in other tenses as with many Spanish -car verbs. Related forms include invocas (present), invoca (he/she/you formal), and invocación as a noun meaning “invocation.”