Spanish imperfect

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The imperfect tense is used to refer to __________ events.

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past

Front

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

Front

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), SER (to be), IR (to go), TENER (to have), IR (to go), SER (to be), ESTAR (to be)

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

Front

"Every year I visited the coast of Wales"

Todos los años _________ la costa de Gales.

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visitaba

Front

El hotel no _________ piscina.

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tenía

Front

Cuando era joven _________ de vacaciones con mis abuelos.

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iba

Front

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

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Nadaba

Front

The translation of the imperfect is...

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used to do something

Front

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

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aba, abas, aba ábamos, aban