yo repetía

repeated, was repeating, used to repeat

→ repetir
repet to repeat, to say again + ía I/he/she imperfect
verb · 1st-person singular / 3rd-person singular, imperfect tense Rare #54,644
repeated, was repeating, used to repeat Can also mean “was repeating myself” when used with a reflexive pronoun, as in “me repetía.”
SP: Ella repetía la historia cada noche.
EN: She repeated the story every night.
Conjugation of repetir
Indicative imperfect
SingularPlural
First repetía —
Third repetía —
Subjunctive imperfect
SingularPlural
First repetía —
Third repetía —

Estaba tan nerviosa que me repetía.

I was so nervous that I kept repeating myself.

Ella repetía lo que había oído a su madre.

She repeated what she had heard from her mother.

Me despertó una voz que repetía mi nombre.

I was awakened by a voice repeating my name.

Jimmy El Loro, lo llamaban así porque lo repetía todo dos veces.

Jimmy the Parrot, they called him that because he repeated everything twice.

— Buenos Muchachos (1990)