transportasteis

Transportasteis is the second-person plural preterite form of the Spanish verb transportar, in the vosotros form. It translates to you all transported or you all carried in English, and is used to describe a completed action in the past.

Morphology and usage: Transportar is a regular -ar verb. In the preterite, the vosotros ending is -asteis, so the form is transport- + -asteis, yielding transportasteis. The subject pronoun vosotros is often omitted in Spanish, with the verb form indicating the person and number. This form is common in Spain and in contexts where informal addressing of a group of people consists of multiple familiar individuals.

Regional variation: In most of Latin America, the vosotros form is not used in everyday speech; instead, ustedes is used for the second-person plural, and the corresponding preterite is ustedes transportaron. Thus, transportasteis is primarily encountered in Spain, in dialogues, literature, or classroom instruction that uses the vosotros paradigm.

Examples: Ayer, transportasteis las cajas al almacén. Después, ¿transportasteis todo a la planta? These sentences illustrate the past action performed by the group addressed as vosotros. The meaning remains dependent on the context, as with all verb forms.

Etymology and related forms: Transportasteis derives from transportar, which comes from Latin transportare, meaning to carry across. The form is one of several standard conjugations of regular -ar verbs in the preterite tense, alongside otras such as hablastéis (informal regional variants) and transportaron for ellos/ellas/ustedes in the past.

In summary, transportasteis is the past-tense form used for “you all transported” when addressing a group informally in Spain, and it reflects the regular -ar verb conjugation in the vosotros paradigm.