Let's play with verbs [Indicative Mood - Imperfect Tense]
Grammar game: Indicative Mood - Imperfect Tense
Notes - The (Spanish) imperfect tense is used to:
- Refer to actions in the past that occurred repeatedly.
- Refer to actions in the past that occurred over an extended period of time.
- "Set the stage" for an event that occurred in the past.
- Actions which are not physical, that is feelings and mental actions, usually use the imperfect tense.
These are the rules:
**Write in Spanish and English, the conjugation of a different verb each time (included in a sentence). People must use the imperfect tense of indicative mood beginning with the letter A for each pronoun (I, you, he/she/it, we, you, they) then with B, etc. until you get to Z.
Examples:
Yo abría la puerta cuando empezó a llover.- I opened the door when it started raining.... (1st person)
Tú alimentabas a los animales cuando trabajabas en la granja. - You fed the animals when you worked on the farm.... (2nd person)
etc.
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Grammar game: Indicative Mood - Imperfect Tense
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(Tú) ¿Tú fumabas?
Did you use to smoke?
Frenábamos nuestra emociónes cuando vimos a nuestras familias por primera vez.. We restrained our emotions when we saw our families for the first time.
No enriquecían el país en el tiempo de la guerra.
They didn't enrich the country in the time of the war.
I´m sorry - I´m a bit "late on parade" here. Re the post by Fidalgo 9th March "De niño buceabas mucho en la mar" "As a child you dove a lot in the sea" I´m practically sure that in British English we don´t use the word "dove". "You dived a lot in the sea "or "You used to dive a lot in the sea" would be more suitable.
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(Ellos) Caminaban por el parque cada domingo.
They walked through the park every Sunday.
(Ellos) Siempre decían que eran inocentes.
They always said they were innocent.
Me escribías bastante cuando estudiamos en la misma clase.
You wrote me a lot when we studied at the same class.
De niña era muy curiosa.
As a child I was very curious.
De niños, dependíamos de nuestro padres.
We depended on our parents when we are children.
(Vosotros) Corríais apenas comenzaba el movimiento.
You all ran, as soon as the movement began.
Doblegabas las normas demasiadas veces. You bent the rules one too many times.
Conducíamos por la izquierda cuando vivimos en el Reino Unido.
We drove on the left when we lived in the United Kingdom.
