recordabas

Recordabas is the second-person singular imperfect indicative form of the Spanish verb recordar. It means “you were remembering” or “you used to remember” and is used to describe past memory or recollection that was habitual or ongoing rather than completed.

Recordar is a regular -ar verb in the imperfect tense. The imperfect forms are recordaba, recordabas, recordaba, recordábamos, recordabais, recordaban. The accent marks follow standard Spanish rules, with recordábamos bearing an accent to preserve the proper stress.

Usage and examples: The imperfect expresses habitual or background memory in the past. Examples include: “Cuando era joven, recordabas cada detalle de lo que ocurría.” (“When you were young, you remembered every detail of what happened.”) and “A veces recordabas cosas que otros ya habían olvidado.” (“Sometimes you remembered things that others had already forgotten.”)

Notes: The form recordabas is commonly used in narrative or everyday speech to convey ongoing recollection in the past. It contrasts with the preterite recordar form “recordaste,” which would refer to a specific remembered instance or a completed recalling. It is common to pair with temporal phrases such as “cuando era niño” or “solía” to signal habitual memory.

Etymology: recordar derives from Latin recordari, formed with re- meaning “again” and cor/cord- meaning “heart,” conveying the sense of recalling or bringing memories back to the heart. The imperfect recordabas inherits the regular -ar imperfect endings.