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Spanish verb andar: conjugation

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Most forms of the verb andar irregular. However:

• the preterite has the irregular forms anduve, anduviste etc.

Sometimes, the preterite of andar is regularised to andé. But these forms are generally considered "substandard". For example comments, see Gonzáles-Mena de Lo-Coco (1974)¹, Butt & Benjamin (2000:173)².

In Mexico at least, andar is commonly used instead of estar to construct continuous verb forms, sometimes with a pejorative notion.

1. Gonzáles-Mena de Lo-Coco (1974), Irregularities of a regular verb, Hispania 57:500-502.
2. Butt, J. & Benjamin, C. (2000), A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, (Arnold, 3rd ed)

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