Imperfect

• used to describe past events or situations in an imperfective aspect; that is, ongoing, repetitive, or habitual past events or situations
•  often used in conjunction with the simple or compound past to indicate an event that was ongoing while another took place
• used in a contrary-to-fact protasis (with the apodosis in the conditional)
• often analogous to English past continuous ("was doing") or to the construction "used to do"

Practice the imperfect tense with the Conjugation Quiz or Conjugation Trainer.

French Verb Tenses

• Infinitive
• Present Participle
• Past Participle
• Present
• Imperfect
• Future
• Simple Past
• Subjunctive
• Imperfect Subjunctive
• Conditional
• Imperative