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Page 1: The Imperfect Tense

The Imperfect Tense

Realidades 2

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

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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

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

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AR endings

Yo aba

Tú abas

Él

Ella aba

Ud.

Nos. ábamos

Ellos

Ellas aban

Uds.

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Since the yo and the Ud./él/ella forms are the same, we often 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.

Nos. patinábamos

Ellos

Ellas patinaban

Uds.

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USAR (to use)

Yo usaba

Tú usabas

Él

Ella usaba

Ud.

Nos. usábamos

Ellos

Ellas usaban

Uds.

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JUGAR (to play)

Yo jugaba

Tú jugabas

Él

Ella jugaba

Ud.

Nos. jugábamos

Ellos

Ellas jugaban

Uds.

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ESTAR (to be)

estaba

estabas

estaba

estábamos

estaban

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

Imperfect

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ER/IR endings

Yo ía

Tú ías

Él

Ella ía

Ud.

Nos. íamos

Ellos

Ellas ían

Uds.

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COMER (to eat)

Yo comía

Tú comías

Él

Ella comía

Ud.

Nos. comíamos

Ellos

Ellas comían

Uds.

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VIVIR (to live)

vivía

vivías

vivía

vivíamos

vivían

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TENER (to have)

tenía

tenías

tenía

teníamos

tenían

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¿Cuándo lo usamos? To describe actions that have no clear

beginning or end

Ex: Emilio siempre iba al parque.

Emilio always used to go to the park. Ex: Los chicos comían pizza.

The boys used to eat pizza.

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¿Cuándo lo usamos? To describe actions that happened repeatedly in

the past

Ex: Cada día íbamos a la guardaría infantil.

Every day we used to go to daycare.

Ex: Los chicos se peleaban mucho.

The boys used to fight a lot.

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¿Cuándo lo usamos? To describe people or places in the past

Ex: Emilio era muy travieso.

Emilio was very mischievous.

Ex: Los chicos eran obedientes.

The boys were obediant.

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To describe time or weather in the past

Ex: Hacía frío.

It was cold. Ex: Eran las once de la noche.

It was eleven a night.

¿Cuándo lo usamos?

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Imperfect—trigger words a veces—sometimes usualmente—usually generalmente—generally siempre—always a menudo—often de vez en cuando—once in a while muchas veces—all the time nunca—never todos los días—everyday

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Irregular Verbs

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The Imperfect

There are three irregular verbs in the imperfect. The verbs IR, SER, and VER.

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IR

iba

ibas

iba

íbamos

iban

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SER

era

eras

era

éramos

eran

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VER

veía

veías

veía

veíamos

veían