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Tenses - Imperfect

In this section - Listen to the reports and see examples of the imperfect tense, used to say what used to happen regularly or repeatedly in the past.

The imperfect tense is formed by adding the following endings to the stem of the verb, e.g. 'ais, ais, ait, ions, iez, aient'.

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