The Imperfect

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The Imperfect

• Describing how life used to be

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Uses of Imperfect

• 1. To express how life used to be in the past.
• Cuando era niña jugaba en el parque todo los
  días.
• When I was a child I played in the park every
  day.

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Uses of Imperfect

• 2. To express repeated or habitual actions.
• Cuando estaba de vacaciones me levantaba tarde
  todas las mañanas.
• When I was en vacations I used to (would) get up
  late every morning.

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Uses of ImperfectThese words express usual or
repeated actions and are often used with the
imperfect.
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Uses of Imperfect

• The verb soler (ue) Infinitive used to
  Infinitive is always used in the Imperfect . It
  denotes a habitual action in the past and it is
  frecuently used.
• Solíamos pasar todos los veranos en la casa de
  campo.
• We used to spend every summer in our house in
  the country.

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Uses of Imperfect

• 3.To express ongoing actions or states.
• El pasajero leía el libro tranquilamente.
• The passenger was reading the book quietly.

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Uses of Imperfect

• Estaba -ando / -iendo is used to emphasize the
  ongoing nature of the action.
• Se estaban divirtiendo mucho en la piscina de su
  casa.
• They were having fun in the swimming pool of his
  house.

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Uses of Imperfect

• 4. To state time in the past.
• Eran las tres de la tarde.
• It was three oclock in the afternoon.

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Uses of Imperfect

• 5. To express age.
• Tenía veinte años cuando viajé a España por
  primera vez.
• I was twenty years old when I went to Spain for
  the first time.

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Uses of Imperfect

• 6. To express two simultaneous actions often
  joined by mientras.
• Yo hacía las maletas mientras mi esposo pagaba
  la cuenta del hotel.
• I was packing the suitcases while my husband was
  paying the hotel bill.

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Uses of Imperfect

• 7. To express the intention to do something in
  the past without regard for whether or not the
  action took place (iba a infinitive)
• Nosotros íbamos a visitar Machu Pichu, pero no
  tuvimos suficiente tiempo.
• We were going to visit Machu Pichu, but we did
  not have enough time.

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FORMS

• The regular verbs.
• The regular verbs conjugation follows this
  pattern -ar verbs end in aba and er and ir
  verbs end in
• ía. They share a single set of endings.

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Regular Verbs
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2. Irregular verbs

• There are only three irregular verbs
• ser, ir, and ver.

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Exercises

• Lets do the exercises in page 447, Cabos
  Sueltos section.

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FIN