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El imperfecto

El imperfecto. You learned to use the preterite tense to talk about actions completed in the past. Now you will learn about the imperfect tense to describe events that occurred in the past: The imperfect is used: To speak about background events in a story

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El imperfecto

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  1. El imperfecto

  2. You learned to use the preterite tense to talk about actions completed in the past. Now you will learn about the imperfect tense to describe events that occurred in the past: The imperfect is used: • To speak about background events in a story • To talk about something you used to do • To speak about how old someone was • To say what time it was • To tell what the weather was like

  3. To form the imperfect tense, you take the root of the verb (before the –ar, -er, or –ir ending) drop the ending, then add the following:AR ER/IR

  4. Trabajar:

  5. Trabajar:

  6. escribir:

  7. escribir:

  8. querer:

  9. querer:

  10. Irregulars: SER (these are the forms, not the endings!)

  11. Irregulars: IR (these are the forms, not the endings!)

  12. Irregulars: VER (these are the forms, not the endings!)

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