Imperfect tense

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Imperfect tense
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Imperfect tense

• Uses of the imperfect

Saying what you used to do
Saying what you were doing
Describing things in the past
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Imperfect tense

• Take the nous part of the verb

Add the correct imperfect ending
finissons
Je finissais
Remove the ons ending
I was finishing ...
I used to finish
finiss
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Imperfect tense

• Je finiss

• ais

I was finishing
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Imperfect tense

• Tu finiss

• ais

You (familiar) were finishing
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Imperfect tense

• Il finiss

• ait

He was finishing
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Imperfect tense

• Elle finiss

• ait

She was finishing
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Imperfect tense

• On finiss

• ait

We were finishing
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Imperfect tense

• Nous finiss

• ions

We were finishing
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Imperfect tense

• Vous finiss

• iez

You (polite) were finishing You (plural) were
finishing
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Imperfect tense

• Ils finiss

• aient

They (masculine) were finishing
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Imperfect tense

• Elles finiss

• aient

They (feminine) were finishing