The imperfect tense in Spanish is used to narrate past events without focusing on their beginning, end, or completion. Copyright © 2008 Vista Higher Learning.

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The imperfect tense in Spanish is used to narrate past events without focusing on their beginning, end, or completion. Copyright © 2008 Vista Higher Learning. All rights reserved.

The imperfect tense of regular verbs is formed by dropping the infinitive ending (–ar, –er, –ir) and adding personal endings. –Ar verbs take the endings –aba, –abas, –aba, –ábamos, –abais, –aban. –Er and –ir verbs take –ía, –ías, –ía, –íamos, –íais, –ían. Copyright © 2008 Vista Higher Learning. All rights reserved.

Ir, ser, and ver are the only verbs that are irregular in the imperfect. Copyright © 2008 Vista Higher Learning. All rights reserved.

The imperfect tense narrates what was going on at a certain time in the past. It often indicates what was happening in the background. Cuando yo era joven, vivía en una ciudad muy grande. Todas las semanas, mis padres y yo íbamos al centro comercial. When I was young, I lived in a big city. Each week, my parents and I went to the mall. Copyright © 2008 Vista Higher Learning. All rights reserved.

The imperfect of hay is había. Había tres cajeros en el supermercado. There were three cashiers in the supermarket. Sólo había un mesero en el café. There was only one waiter in the café. Copyright © 2008 Vista Higher Learning. All rights reserved.

These words and expressions are often used with the imperfect because they express habitual or repeated actions: de niño/a (as a child), todos los días (every day), mientras (while), siempre (always). De niño vivía en un suburbio de Madrid. As a child, I lived in a suburb of Madrid. Todos los días iba a la casa de mi abuela. Every day I went to my grandmother’s house. Siempre escuchaba música mientras corría en el parque. I always listened to music while I ran in the park. Copyright © 2008 Vista Higher Learning. All rights reserved.

Copyright © 2008 Vista Higher Learning. All rights reserved.