The Imperfect Tense: Irregular Verbs

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The Imperfect TenseIrregular Verbs

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• Realidades 2

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Imperfect

• Imperfect is used for habitual actions in the
  past.
• It tells what someone used to do, would do,
  did over and over.
• No specific point in time when the actions
  started or finished.

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Imperfect

• Use for actions that happened repeatedly in past.
• Tener and vivir, for example, can describe
  actions that are ongoing.
• -er and ir have the same endings, just as they
  shared a set of endings in Preterite. Be careful
  with accent marks here!

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Imperfect

• Although you can omit the subject pronoun or noun
  with most verbs most of the time, it is a good
  idea to use the subject with Imperfect.
• First person yo and third person él, ella,
  usted look exactly alike! Pronouns make it clear
  who used to do something.

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ESTAR

• estaba
• estabas
• estaba

• estábamos
• estabais
• estaban

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TENER

• tenía
• tenías
• tenía

• teníamos
• tenías
• tenían

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VIVIR

• vivía
• vivías
• vivía

• vivíamos
• vivíais
• vivían

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The Imperfect

• There are three irregular verbs in the imperfect
  the verbs IR, SER, and VER.

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IR

• iba
• ibas
• iba

• íbamos
• ibais
• iban

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SER

• era
• eras
• era

• éramos
• erais
• eran

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VER

• veía
• veías
• veía

• veíamos
• veíais
• veían

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• Ten cuidado! Accent marks are very important in
  writing verbs in Imperfect Tense. Compare the
  nosotros forms of these three irregular verbs
• ibamos eramos veiamos

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IR

• iba
• ibas
• iba

• íbamos
• ibais
• iban

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SER

• era
• eras
• era

• éramos
• erais
• eran

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VER

• veía
• veías
• veía

• veíamos
• veíais
• veían

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Preterite

• The Preterite Tense tells what happened an
  action that occurred.
• There are many irregular verbs in Preterite we
  will learn more in the coming months.
• A Preterite action is completed, with definite
  beginning and ending.