No. 10,686 in Spanish
dedicaba
"Used to dedicate" or "was dedicating."
In a sentence
El maestro se dedicaba a enseñar con pasión.
The teacher devoted himself to teaching passionately.
The word 'dedicaba' is used in the imperfect past tense to describe the teacher's habitual or continuous action of dedicating effort towards teaching passionately.
Ella dedicaba tiempo a practicar música todos los días.
She used to dedicate time to practicing music every day.
'Dedicaba' here indicates a repeated or habitual commitment of time to an activity—practicing music—in the past.
Antes, Juan se dedicaba a escribir cuentos durante las tardes.
Before, Juan used to dedicate himself to writing stories in the afternoons.
In this sentence, 'dedicaba' is used to portray an activity that Juan habitually engaged in during a period in the past—writing stories in the afternoons.
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