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Imperfect

Feeling a bit imperfect when talking about past events in Spanish?   

When narrating in the past, you often have to choose between two verb tenses:  the preterite and the imperfect. Here are a few strategies that students have used to remember how to form the imperfect and when to use it.

Remembering the endings for imperfect verbs

Remembering when to use the imperfect tense

 

 

 

 

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