Imperfect tense regular verbs

Use the imperfect tense of regular verbs to talk about actions that happen repeatedly in the past. Here are the regular forms of -ar verbs: -aba, -abas, -aba, -ábamos, -aban. -Er and -ir verbs have the same endings as each other and the endings are: -ía, -ías, -ía, -íamos, -ían. The yo, udstes ,and el/ ella forms are the same in the imperfect for -ar, -er ,and -ir verbs.

Reciprical Actions

For reciprical actions you use se and nos for the pronouns in order to express an idea to each other. For example, Se abrezaban y Se besaban. They were hugging each other and kissing each other.

Preterite VS. Imperfect

You use imperfect verbs to talk about actions that happen repeditivly in the past. Here are the ending for -ar, -er, and -ir verbs in the imperfect tense. Ar verb endings are as follows: -aba, -abas, -aba, -ábamos, and -aban. Most-er and -ir verbs have the same endings; there are only a few exceptions. The endings for -er and -ir verbs are as follows: -ía, -ías, -ía, -íamos, and -ían. And for preterite verbs check out our earlier post on preterite verbs.

Irregular preterite

Preterite verbs are verbs used to descibe action that were cmpleted in the past just like all the other verbs you keep the stems, unless they are stem changing verbs, and change the ending. irregular preterite verbs are venir, poner, decir, and traer. the irregular preterite endings are -e, -iste, -o, -imos, and -ieron/-eron.