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  2. Imperfect - Wikipedia

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    The imperfect (abbreviated IMPERF) is a verb form that combines past tense (reference to a past time) and imperfective aspect (reference to a continuing or repeated event or state). It can have meanings similar to the English "was walking" or "used to walk".

  3. Latin tenses with modality - Wikipedia

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    The imperfect indicative generally has an imperfective meaning and describes situations in the past. Often the imperfect can be translated into English as 'was doing', but sometimes the simple tense 'did' or expressions such as 'used to do', 'would do', 'kept doing', 'began to do', 'had been doing' are more appropriate.

  4. Latin tenses - Wikipedia

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    The imperfect indicative generally has an imperfective meaning and describes situations in the past. Often the imperfect can be translated into English as 'was doing', but sometimes the simple tense 'did' or expressions such as 'used to do', 'would do', 'kept doing', 'began to do', 'had been doing' are more appropriate. Situation at a ...

  5. Romance verbs - Wikipedia

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    Note that the Vulgar Latin reconstructions are believed to have regularized word stress within each tense (except the present and imperative). Word-final e probably converged on /ə/. Many verb forms have undergone elisions, like the indicative pluperfect cantāveram > *cantára and the subjunctive imperfect cantāvissem > *cantásse.

  6. Imperfective aspect - Wikipedia

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    The imperfective aspect may be fused with the past tense, for a form traditionally called the imperfect. In some cases, such as Spanish and Portuguese , this is because the imperfective aspect occurs only in the past tense; others, such as Georgian and Bulgarian , have both general imperfectives and imperfects.

  7. Latin tenses in dependent clauses - Wikipedia

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    imperfect in imperfect future in future 'present subjunctive' neque quaerēs, ubī nocte dormiat, aut sī quaesieris, prō singulīs injūriīs nūmerābis praesentēs dēnāriōs dūcēnōs. (Petronius) [42] 'you will not ask where he will sleep at night, and if you do, for each harassment you will pay twenty denarii on the spot.' will do in ...

  8. Man Suggests Ex-Girlfriend's Name for Baby with New Wife ...

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    A man is raising eyebrows online after sharing that he suggested a unique name for his new baby with his wife: the name of his ex-girlfriend. In a post shared on Reddit, the anonymous, 40-year-old ...

  9. List of English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    This is followed by the simple past tense , and then the past participle. If there are irregular present tense forms (see below), these are given in parentheses after the infinitive. (The present participle and gerund forms of verbs, ending in -ing, are always regular. In English, these are used as verbs, adjectives, and nouns.)