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The imperfect tenseUsing the imperfect tense and the perfect tense

The imperfect tense is used to talk about and also describe things that used to happen regularly in the past. Learn how to form sentences using this tense.

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When to use the imperfect tense and the perfect tense

The imperfect tense and the perfect tense are often used together.

The imperfect describes what was going on/what was happening but is interrupted by the perfect (ie something that has suddenly happened):

je mangeais quand tu as telephoné - I was eating when you called
il faisait beau quand tu es arrivé - it was sunny when you arrived

Useful verbs in the imperfect tense

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