José Valkyre asked:


I found this website that had information about certain preterite verbs that I was never taught. As I grew older, I just tried to accept that this was correct and never asked anyone. I was one of the few members of my family that learned Spanish through a classroom. Do these verbs really change their meaning in the preterite? I’m not asking about tense, but I am asking about these verbs that change their meetings. EX: Conocer becomes “to meet” in the preterite. Is that true? Does Querer and Poder and the other ones change meetings too? Check the site, please, for what I am talking about.

http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/pretimp3.htm

Is this question so hard? O_O It’s a yes or no answer!!!

In the preterite, based on what the website told me, do these verbs change meanings?

VERB = Preterite Meaning (Present Meaning)
Conocer = to meet (to know)
Querer = to try (to want)
No Querer = to refuse (to not want)
Saber = to find out (to know)
Poder = to succeeded (to be able [to])
Tener = to receive, to get (to have)

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