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The Imperfect Tense: Regular Verbs and irregular verbs

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Page 1: The Imperfect Tense: Regular Verbs and irregular verbs

The Imperfect Tense:Regular Verbsand irregular verbs

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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 used to sing. (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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We always use the imperfect when talking in the past about:

-physical descriptions: era traviesa -age: Tenía ocho años cuando... -weather: Hacía mucho calor -telling time: Eran las diez y media de la

mañana -setting the scene: Había mucha gente -verbs of thought and emotion: Estaba contenta

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Imperfect

Expressions such as de pequeño(a) generalmente varias veces

de niño(a) muchas veces en aquella época

a menudo mucho frecuentementea veces nunca todos los díascada día por un rato todo el tiempocada semanasiempre con frecuenciacada mes tantas veces de vez en

cuando cada año todas las semana .

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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 VERBSYo aba

Tú abas

Él

Ella aba

Ud.

Nosotros ábamos

Vosotros abais

Ellos

Ellas aban

Uds.

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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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JUGAR (to play)

Yo jugaba

Tú jugabas

Él

Ella jugaba

Ud.

Nosotros jugábamos

Vosotros. jugabais

Ellos

Ellas jugaban

Uds.

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All AR VERBS are regular in the imperfect tense

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

The nosotros form of –AR verbs in the imperfect tense has an accent mark.

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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USAR (to use)

Yo usaba

Tú usabas

Él

Ella usaba

Ud.

Nosotros usábamos

Vosotros usabais

Ellos

Ellas usaban

Uds.

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

Imperfect

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ER-IR verbs

Yo ía

Tú ías

Él

Ella ía

Ud.

Nosotros íamos

Vosotros íais

Ellos

Ellas ían

Uds.

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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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ALL forms of ER-IR verbs have accent marks

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

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Imperfect-irregular

There are only three irregulars

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Ver (to see)

Yo veía

Tú veías

Él

Ella veía

Ud.

Nos. veíamos

Vos. veíais

Ellos

Ellas veían

Uds.

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Ir a (to go to)

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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Haber is a special verb because it has only ONE form, singular. You already know the present tense form, hay (“there is/are”). The imperfect form is había (“there was/were, there used to be”).

HABER (there was, there were)

Hay una tienda aquí hoy. Antes había una iglesia allí, y había tres

tiendas allá.

Había Había