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The imperfect tense The imperfect is another way to express the past. To talk about something you used to do as a matter of habit. cant ar -to sing To.

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1 The imperfect tense The imperfect is another way to express the past. To talk about something you used to do as a matter of habit. cant ar -to sing To speak about background events in a story. To talk about how old someone was. To say what time it was. (I used to sing) cantabas cantaba (you used to sing) cantaba (he/she used to sing) (you (formal) used to sing) cant á bamos (we used to sing) cantabais (you guys used to sing) cantaban (they used to sing) (you all used to sing) *OJO – only the nosotros form has an accent mark!! To talk about something that was happening.

2 El estaba aquí cuando yo hacía el pastel (He was here when I was making the cake.) Yo siempre jugaba con mis amigos. (I always used to play with my friends.) There are only three irregular verbs in the imperfect tense. ser – to be era eras era hacer-to make salir-to leave éramos erais eran ir – to go iba ibas iba íbamos ibais iban ver – to see veía veías veía veíamos veíais veían The imperfect tense (cont’d) hac ía hac ías hac ía hac íamos hac íais hac ían salía salías salía sal íamos sal íais sal ían *OJO – all the forms of an -er/-ir verb have an accent mark over the í Cuando yo era niña, íbamos a la playa. (When I was little, we used to go to the beach.)

3 a menudo – often cada día-every (each) day de vez en cuando – once in a while muchas veces – lots of times todos los días – everyday nunca - never con frecuencia-with frequency, frequently siempre – always los (lunes) – on (Mondays) The imperfect tense (cont’d) We use the él/ellos form to say what we used to like. s.p. me gustaba (gustaban) te gustaba (gustaban)os gustaba (gustaban) les gustaba (gustaban) le gustaba (gustaban) nos gustaba (gustaban)


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