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All about the imperfect tense and how to form it
☻ You use the imperfect tense to describe what you have been doing in the past for a long period of time. E.g.:
☻I used to eat baguettes
☻I used to visit France every summer
☻This is the ‘used to' tense, and it is when you have done something you don’t do anymore. (Not a one off action)
We use the imperfect tense to describe how the weather was in the past..
i.e.
Il faisait chaud It was hot
Il pleuvait It was raining
Il neigeait It was snowing
Hier, il faisait froid!
You use the Imperfect tense when you use ‘ing’ in the past.
I.e. I was singing
I was drinking
I was arriving
Goes to…
Je chantais
Je buvais
J’arrivais
Je mangeais au Macdo quand mon amie est arrivée.
je ....................... aistu ....................... aisil ....................... aitnous .......................ionsvous ....................... iezils .......................aient
You choose your subject and you use the ‘nous’ form of the verb. Then add the endings as shown
i.e.Take the NOUS form of the PRESENT TENSE, and take off the –ONS to get the Imperfect stem.
MangeonsJe aisI used to eat
ParlonsIl aitHe used to talk
FinissonsNous ionsWe used to finish