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The imperfect tense is used in actions that were ongoing in the past at the same time as other actions went on or occurred, the imperfect/ imparfait is the equivalent of the past progressive "was" or "was …-ing” in English, and is usually used for habitual actions in the past, actions of an unspecified duration, in conjunction with the passé composé , wishes or suggestions …the good news is that there is only one ending for all kind of verbs: je -ais, tu -ais, il -ait, nous -ions, vous -iez, ils -aient.

* Usually we don’t add an “e” to the stem in the imperfect, but since the letter “g” was the last letter in the stem we had to add an “e”, otherwise the sound will change.

Some more verbs in the imperfect tense: