The Imperfect Tense: Regular Verbs Over and over and over and over and over in the past.

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The Imperfect Tense: Regular Verbs Over and over and over and over and over in the past

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The Imperfect Tense:Regular VerbsOver and over and over and over and

over in the past

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Preterite

You have already learned to talk about the past using the preterite tense for actions that began and ended at a definite time.

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Preterite

Ana cantó en la fiesta anoche.

Ana sang at the party last night.

(Completed past action.)

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Imperfect The imperfect tense is

another way to talk about the past. We use it to describe actions without any indication of their beginning or end.

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Imperfect

Ana cantaba. Ana was singing. (No indication of beginning

or end.)

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Imperfect We use the imperfect to talk about

ongoing and repeated actions that happened in the past. In English we often say “used to” or “would” to express this idea.

(We also use the imperfect to describe things in the past.)

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Imperfect

Generalmente caminaban mucho.

Generally they would walk a lot.

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Imperfect

Jugaban con otros niños de la familia.

They used to play with other children in the family.

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Imperfect

Expressions such as generalmente, a menudo, muchas veces, todos los días, siempre, and nunca can cue us to use the imperfect.

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Imperfect

Here are all the forms of -ar verbs in the imperfect. Notice the accent mark on the nosotros form.

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CAMINAR (to walk)

Yo caminaba

Tú caminabas

Él

Ella caminaba

Ud.

Nosotros caminábamos

Vosotros caminabais

Ellos

Ellas caminaban

Uds.

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Since the yo and the Ud./él/ella forms are the same, we use the subject pronouns to avoid confusion.

Imperfect

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Imperfect

Let’s do a few more verbs.

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PATINAR (to skate)

Yo patinaba

Tú patinabas

Él

Ella patinaba

Ud.

Nosotros patinábamos

Vosotros patinabais

Ellos

Ellas patinaban

Uds.

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PELEARSE (to fight)

Yo me peleaba

Tú te peleabas

Él

Ella se peleaba

Ud.

Nosotros nos peleábamos

Vosotros os peleabais

Ellos

Ellas se peleaban

Uds.

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JUGAR (to play)

Yo jugaba

Tú jugabas

Él

Ella jugaba

Ud.

Nosotros jugábamos

Vosotros jugabais

Ellos

Ellas jugaban

Uds.

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Now we will learn the -er/-ir verb endings in the imperfect tense.

Imperfect

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COMER (to eat)

Yo comía

Tú comías

Él

Ella comía

Ud.

Nosotros comíamos

Vosotros comíais

Ellos

Ellas comían

Uds.

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VIVIR (to live)

Yo vivía

Tú vivías

Él

Ella vivía

Ud.

Nosotros vivíamos

Vosotros vivíais

Ellos

Ellas vivían

Uds.

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Let’s review once more.

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HACER travesuras (to play tricks)

Yo hacía travesuras

Tú hacías travesuras

Él

Ella hacía travesuras

Ud.

Nosotros hacíamos travesuras

Vosotros hacíais travesuras

Ellos

Ellas hacían travesuras

Uds.

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COMPARTIR (to share)

Yo compartía

Tú compartías

Él

Ella compartía

Ud.

Nosotros compartíamos

Vosotros compartíais

Ellos

Ellas compartían

Uds.

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Irregular imperfect verbs

There are only 3 verbs that are irregular in the imperfect

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VER (to see)

Yo veía

Tú veías

Él

Ella veía

Ud.

Nosotros veíamos

Vosotros veíais

Ellos

Ellas veían

Uds.

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IR (to go)

Yo iba

Tú ibas

Él

Ella iba

Ud.

Nosotros íbamos

Vosotros ibais

Ellos

Ellas iban

Uds.

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SER (to be)

Yo era

Tú eras

Él

Ella era

Ud.

Nosotros éramos

Vosotros erais

Ellos

Ellas eran

Uds.

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Práctica

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Yo (comer)

Yo comía

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Yo (estar)

Yo estaba

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Nosotros (jugar)

Nosotros jugábamos

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Tú (conseguir)

Tú conseguías

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Cristina (saltar a la cuerda)

Cristina

saltaba a la cuerda

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Juan y Miguel (jugar)

Juan y Miguel jugaban

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Vosotros (estudiar)

Vosotros estudiabais

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tú (repetir)

Tú repetías

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nosotros (pedir)

Nosotros pedíamos

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vosotros (visitar)

Vosotros visitabais

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Usted (enseñar)

Usted enseñaba

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Yo (decir)

Yo decía

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Nosotros (dormirse)

Nosotros

nos dormíamos

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Ella (ser)

Ella era

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Tú (ir)

Tú ibas

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Ellos (decir)

Ellos decían

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Nosotros (ver)

Nosotros veíamos

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Mi novia (traer)

Mi novia traía

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Ustedes (ver)

Ustedes veían

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Yo (ir)

Yo iba

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Carlos (descansar)

Carlos descansaba