The imperfect tense in spanish is a special form of past tense used to describe repetitave things that HAD already happened like: - repeated actions
- time
- descriptions
- weather Example) She used to walk to school every friday.
Ella caminaba a la escuela todos los viernes.
For AR verb endings: (yo) - aba (nosotros) - ábamos
(tú) - abas (vosotros) - abais
(él, ella, usted) - aba (must clarify) (ellos, ellas, ustedes) - aban
For ER/IR verb endings: (yo) - ía (nosotros) - íamos (tú) - ías (vosotros) - íais (él, ella, usted) - ía (must clarify) (ellos, ellas, ustedes) - ían
There are only 3 irregular verbs for the imperfect tense: - ir (to go)
- ser (to be)
- ver (to see)
Ir: (yo) - iba (nosotros) - íbamos (tú) - ibas (vosotros) - ibais (él, ella, usted) - iba (must clarify) (ellos, ellas, ustedes) - iban
Ser: (yo) - era (nosotros) - éramos (tú) - eras (vosotros) - erais (él, ella, usted) - era (must clarify) (ellos, ellas, ustedes) - eran
Ver: (yo) - veía (nosotros) - veíamos (tú) - veías (vosotros) - veíais (él, ella, usted) - veía (must clarify) (ellos, ellas, ustedes) - veían
There you go :)
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Era is the imperfect yo ("I") form of the Spanish verb ser ("to be"). Without the subject pronoun, it may translate as "He was," "It was," "She was" or "You were" according to English contexts. The pronunciation will be "(yo) EY-ra" in Uruguayan Spanish.
Yes, stem changes can occur in the imperfect tense in Spanish.
Present: hay Imperfect: había Preterite: hubo Future: habrá Conditional: habría Subjunctive: haya Past Subjunctive: hubiera
In Spanish, there are three irregular verbs in the imperfect tense: ser, ir, and ver. These verbs have unique conjugations in the imperfect tense that do not follow the regular patterns of regular -ar, -er, or -ir verbs.
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Era is the imperfect yo ("I") form of the Spanish verb ser ("to be"). Without the subject pronoun, it may translate as "He was," "It was," "She was" or "You were" according to English contexts. The pronunciation will be "(yo) EY-ra" in Uruguayan Spanish.
Yes, stem changes can occur in the imperfect tense in Spanish.
Present: hay Imperfect: había Preterite: hubo Future: habrá Conditional: habría Subjunctive: haya Past Subjunctive: hubiera
perfect and imperfect
In Spanish, there are three irregular verbs in the imperfect tense: ser, ir, and ver. These verbs have unique conjugations in the imperfect tense that do not follow the regular patterns of regular -ar, -er, or -ir verbs.
This is the imperfect tense. (verb)= present tense (verb)ed= perfect tense was (verb)ing= imperfect tense Perfect and imperfect are both forms of the past tense.
The imperfect tense sign in Spanish is "-aba/-ía" for -ar verbs and "-ía" for -er and -ir verbs.
los humanos no son perfectos.
The imperfect tense can certainly be used in some aspects of past-tense narration, but you will need a range of different tenses to perform a proper past-tense narration. At the minimum, you will need both imperfect and preterit OR imperfect and present perfect. However, you will likely need other tenses such as imperfect progressive, past perfect, and imperfect subjunctive.
Aumentado - participle, adjective. aumento - preterite aumentaba - imperfect