organizaste

Organizaste is a Spanish verb form that serves as the second-person singular preterite (pretérito indefinido) of the verb organizar. It denotes a completed action in the past in which you organized something. The form corresponds to the informal subject tú, with a meaning equivalent to “you organized.” The formal counterpart would be usted organizó, or for plural subjects, ustedes organizaron.

Grammatically, organizaste comes from the stem organiz- plus the preterite ending -aste, which is characteristic of -ar verbs in the tú form. The yo form in this verb is organicé, which carries a written accent due to spelling rules for -zar verbs in the first-person past. The verb’s spelling retains the z before the a in this form, as in organizaste.

Etymology and usage notes: organizar derives from Latin roots related to organum (an instrument or tool) and the concept of arranging or coordinating. The word was adopted into Spanish with the usual -ar verb patterns. In typical usage, organizaste is followed by a direct object describing what was organized (for example, una reunión, una fiesta, un evento). It can appear in statements like “Ayer organizaste la reunión” or in questions such as “¿Organizaste todo para la fiesta?”

Related forms include organizo (yo presente), organizas (tú presente), organizó (él/ella/usted pretérito), organizasteis (vosotros pretérito), and organizaron (ellos/ellas/ustedes pretérito).