El imperfecto. -is another past tense. -expresses what people used to do or tells what somebody was doing in the past. -is used to describe the way things.

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El imperfecto

-is another past tense. -expresses what people used to do or tells what somebody was doing in the past. -is used to describe the way things used to be.

yo -aba nosotros -ábamos tú -abas Él Ella Ud. -aba Ellos Ellas Uds. -aban FORMS: -AR verbs

The exceptions There are only 3 irregular verbs! Forms of SER are: era, eras, era, éramos, and eran. Forms of IR are : iba, ibas, iba, íbamos, and iban. Forms of VER are: veía, veías, veía, veíamos, and veían.

Práctica 1.Mi abuela ________ inglés. (HABLAR) The stem of the verb is HABL-. Add the imperfect ending for ella and you get?

Práctica 1. Mi abuela HABLABA inglés.

2. Yo _________ mucha leche. (BEBER)

2. Yo BEBÍA mucha leche.

Now try to complete the rest of the conjugations by applying the patterns you’ve been shown.

3. LEÍAN 4. CAMINÁBAMOS 5. TENÍAN 6. TOMABAN 7. ESCUCHABAS

8. ERA 9. ESTUDIABAS 10. VENÍAN 11. MIRABA 12. ESCRIBÍA

13. IBAN 14. JUGÁBAMOS 15.COMÍAN

PRESENT to IMPERFECT? Change the verb from present tense to imperfect 16. Tomas The –as at the end tells us that it’s a tú form, right? The STEM of the verb TOMAR is TOM. Add the tú form imperfect ending, and the result is…?

16. TOMABAS

17. ESCUCHA is the él, ella, Ud. form… Its imperfect form is?

17. ESCUCHABA

Now try the rest, substituting the imperfect ending for the present tense ending.

18. tenían 19. abría 20.llegaban 21. miraba 22. colgábamos

23. Jugaba 24. Vivían 25. Eran

On the back of the paper write five sentence telling things you used to do as a child. Ejemplo: Yo nadaba en la playa cuando yo era niño.

EXTRA PRACTICE