transportaste

Transportaste is the second-person singular form in the preterite tense of the Spanish verb transportar. It is used to indicate that you carried, moved, or conveyed something in the past. The verb transportar itself means to carry across, to transport, or to convey from one place to another.

Etymology and form: Transportar comes from Latin transportare, formed with trans- (across) and portare (to carry). In Spanish, it follows a regular -ar verb pattern, so its preterite forms include transporté, transportaste, transportó, transportamos, transportasteis, transportaron. The form transportaste specifically combines the stem transport- with the ending -aste for the second-person singular in the preterite.

Usage notes: Transportaste is commonly used in narratives or discussions of past events involving moving people or objects. It can describe physical transportation, such as shipment of goods, relocation, or travel, as well as figurative transport, such as transporting someone emotionally in a story. It is a verb form, not a noun, and its subject is understood as tú.

Examples:

- Ayer transportaste las cajas al camión. (Yesterday you transported the boxes to the truck.)

- ¿Qué transportaste en tu viaje? (What did you transport on your trip?)

- Tú transportaste a tus amigos durante la mudanza. (You carried your friends during the move.)

See also: transportar, preterite tense in Spanish.