Imperfect (el imperfecto)

The imperfect tense combines a past tense action with a continuous quality. It is used to talk about habitual actions, times and dates and age as well as to describe feelings, emotions and surroundings in the past. This verb tense does not exist in English and thus, is often confused with the preterite tense and vice versa. It can most easily be translated to “was + doing something” or “used to + do something” in English. The good news is, though, that the imperfect tense is one of the few tenses with no irregular verbs!

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