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The imperfect (abbreviated IMPERF) is a verb form that combines past tense ... In Portuguese, the imperfect indicative, called "pretérito imperfeito", is quite ...
Imperfect (Pretérito imperfecto or copretérito) amaba: amabas: amaba: amábamos: amabais: amaban: Preterite (Pretérito perfecto simple or Pretérito indefinido) amé: amaste [3] amastes / amaste [4] amó: amamos: amasteis: amaron: Future (Futuro simple or Futuro) amaré: amarás: amará: amaremos: amaréis: amarán: Conditional (Condicional ...
Imperfect (pretérito imperfecto. The imperfect is formed with the endings shown below. There are three irregular verbs in the imperfect tense: ser, ir and ver:
In Portuguese, the preterite is the pretérito perfeito. The Portuguese preterite has the same form as the Spanish preterite, but the meaning is like the "composed past" of French and Italian in that, for example, corri means both "I ran" and "I have run." As in other Romance languages, it is opposed to the pretérito imperfeito .
“Past (Im)Perfect,” (“Pretérito Imperfecto,” David Caiña Pérez, Spain) 2063: an elderly couple, sunk in tedium, travel back to 2023 and their first date in a run-down Chinese restaurant ...
Preterite tense (préterito, pretérito) e.g. Yo comí and Eu comi (I ate or I have eaten) Past imperfective (imperfecto, imperfeito) e.g. Yo comía and Eu comia (I was eating) Pluperfect (pluperfecto, mais-que-perfeito) e.g. Yo había comido or Yo hube comido and Eu comera or Eu tinha comido (I had eaten [before another event in the past])
In Spanish, there are also two pluperfects, being the pluperfect proper (pluscuamperfecto, or antecopretérito) and the so called pretérito anterior (or antepretérito). While the former uses the imperfect of the auxiliary verb haber plus the past participle, the latter is formed with the simple past of haber plus the past
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