Spanish imperfect

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The imperfect tense is used to refer to __________ events.

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past

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To form the imperfect tense, we remove the - AR/-ER/-IR ending from the infinitive verb and add the following endings: -AR = -aba, -abas, -aba, -ábamos, -abais, -aban; -ER/-IR = - ía, -ías, -ía, -íamos, -íais, -ían.

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-AR = -aba, -abas, -aba, -ábamos, -abais, -aban; -ER/-IR = - ía, -ías, -ía, -íamos, -íais, -ían.

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Good news! In the imperfect tense there are only ______ irregular verbs.

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3

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The irregular verbs in the imperfect tense are: VER (to see), SER (to be), IR (to go)

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VER (to see), SER (to be), IR (to go)

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Every year I visited/used to visit the coast of Wales. Todos los años _________ la costa de Gales.

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visitaba

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"The hotel didn't have a swimming pool"

El hotel no _________ piscina.

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tenía

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Cuando era joven _________ de vacaciones con mis abuelos.

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iba

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"I was swimming in the sea when it started to rain."
Yo____________ en el mar cuando empezó a llover.

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Nadaba

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The translation of the imperfect is...

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used to do something

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For -ar verbs in the imperfect, add...

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aba, abas, aba ábamos, aban