Verb Tenses / Imperfect
Practice the imperfect tense with the Conjugation Quiz or Conjugation Trainer.
- 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"
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