As he was examining a plane more closely, a man abruptly took him and threw him inside with the baggage. Eight hours later, the plane arrived in Paris, where Tex would start his new French life! Tex spent the rest of his childhood in France. In fact, he became one hundred per cent French. When he was an adolescent, he considered himself a disciple of Sartre. He knew nothing about baseball and he detested everything American. We use the imparfait to describe conditions, or the backdrop to the main action.
The biggest example of a condition is weather , but could include other kinds of conditions, such as age. Since snow describes weather, we use the imparfait.
We use the imparfait because the fact that she was eight years old is a condition that sets up the rest of the sentence. She visited her grandmother, not just once, but on a regular basis. This might be the most common use of the imparfait. Since they lived in France over a period of time, habiter is in the imparfait , and since the action of going to the park was part of a routine, visiter must also be put in the imparfait.
Because you went to the beach every weekend living the dream! Hair is obviously a physical trait, so we use the imparfait. For regular verbs ending in -er , we simply remove the -r from the infinitive and add an accent to the e. For regular verbs ending in -re , we remove the whole -re ending from the infinitive and replace it with -u. For regular -ir verbs , all we have to do is remove the -r from the infinitive. So, finir to finish becomes fini and choisir to choose becomes choisi.
The main three include:. Avoir to have becomes eu. There are always those few rogue verbs that just feel like breaking the rules.
D evenir To become R evenir To come back. I went home at in the morning. Become a Lingolia Plus member to access these additional exercises. My friends called to tell me how horrible the weather was by the sea. I received a call. They spent every day indoors! Last year I went to the Loire on holiday. I would often stop to chat with the villagers.
We can see that the first paragraph of my story in the past tense describes the context and my habits while the second paragraph describes specific and limited actions in the past. It is quite normal to have verbs in the past tense and in the imperfect tense in the same sentence.
It all depends on what the verb is expressing in the sentence. The verb "faire" is in the past tense, because it is a one-time action in the past. It is sometimes possible to put a verb in the past tense, but also in the imperfect tense. However, the context of the sentence will change. In my sentence 1, I use the imperfect tense because I am describing the situation at the time that was in the past. I am describing what she was doing. In my sentence 2, I'm using the past tense, because I'm talking about a one-time action, it happened only once, at a specific time.
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