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Cocinar Preterite Tense
Delve into the Spanish Preterite Tense with the vibrant verb cocinar. Discover a full conjugation chart, exciting verb games, and sentences illustrating cocinar in use. Cook up your Spanish skills and integrate cocinar fluently in your conversations. For more on Spanish verbs, explore Spanish verb conjugation. Refine your cocinar conjugation at our cocinar conjugation page.
Verb Meaning(s): to cook
Verb Chart: Cocinar Preterite Tense
Yo | cociné I cooked | Nosotros | cocinamos we cooked |
Tú (Juana, Juan) | cocinaste you cooked | Vosotros (informal Spain) | cocinasteis you all cooked |
Él/Ella/Ud. (Sra./Dr. García) | cocinó he/she/you cooked | Ellos/Ellas/Uds. | cocinaron they/you all cooked |
Cocinar Preterite Tense Practice
Cocinar Preterite Sentence Examples
I cooked pasta for dinner last night.
2. ¿Cocinaste algo especial para tu familia?
Did you cook something special for your family?
3. Él cocinó un asado para sus amigos.
He cooked a barbecue for his friends.
4. Ella cocinó galletas para la venta de pasteles.
She baked cookies for the bake sale.
5. ¿Cocinó Ud. el desayuno esta mañana?
Did you cook breakfast this morning?
We cooked paella for the birthday party.
7. ¿Cocinaron ellos una cena vegana?
Did they cook a vegan dinner?
8. Las chicas cocinaron tacos para la noche mexicana.
The girls cooked tacos for Mexican night.
9. ¿Cocinaron Uds. en la acampada?
Did you all cook at the campout?
10. Vosotros cocinasteis un pastel para la clase de español.
You all (Spain) baked a cake for the Spanish class.
Polish Your Preterite Tense with “cocinar”
Excellent job mastering the preterite tense of cocinar—perfect for describing dishes you cooked! To deepen your skills, compare it with the poder preterite tense, a strong-stem irregular example, and explore the ser preterite tense, one of Spanish’s most essential irregulars. For full guidance on past-tense conjugation across all moods and verbs, visit our Complete Spanish Verb Guide.


