French Fry Day
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L’Imparfait
The imperfect tense in French is used to express the distant past, past habits and conditions that no longer exist.
To form the imperfect, conjugate the verb for “vous”, drop the “ez” ending and replace with the following:
| je ”ais” | nous “ions” |
| tu “ais” |
vous “iez” |
| il/elle/on “ait” |
ils/elles “aient” |
For example:
| Habiter – to reside, live: Vous habitez | |
| je habitais |
nous habitions |
| tu habitais |
vous habitiez |
| il/elle/on habitait |
ils/elles habitaient |
Exceptions:
Verbs ending in ger retain the “e” in all forms except nous and vous.
| Manger – to eat | |
| je mangeais |
nous mangions |
| tu mangeais |
vous mangiez |
| il/elle/on mangeait |
ils/elles mangeaient |
Verbs ending in “cer” the “c” changes to “ç”.
| Commencer – to begin | |
| je commençais |
nous commençions |
| tu commençais |
vous commençiez |
| il/elle/on commençait |
ils/elles commençaient |
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