limpiaron

Limpiaron is the preterite form used for the third-person plural (ellos, ellas, and commonly ustedes) of limpiar, the Spanish verb meaning to clean. Like other preterite forms, it indicates a completed action in the past. Limpiaron appears in sentences where the subject performed a cleaning task whose completion is being reported; it is regular in its conjugation.

Conjugation and usage: The full preterite paradigm for limpiar is: limpié, limpiaste, limpió, limpiamos, limpiasteis, limpiaron. Limpiaron is used for statements such as Ellos limpiaron la casa ayer, or Ustedes limpiaron las ventanas antes de la lluvia. It describes a completed past action, as opposed to the imperfect limpiaban, which conveys habitual or ongoing past action (Ellos limpiaban la casa cada sábado). The present perfect han limpiado connects the past action to the present (Han limpiado la casa).

Notes: The form is commonly found in narrative, journalism, and everyday speech across Spanish-speaking regions. While subject pronouns are often omitted because the verb ending signals the person and number, the use of limpiaron clearly marks a plural subject in the past. Understanding limpiaron helps in parsing past-tense sequences, especially when contrasting with other tenses of limpiar.