L’imparfait: The imperfect tense in French
francais.lingolia.com › en › grammarL’imparfait (the imperfect) is a French past tense. It describes states and actions that were ongoing or repeated in the past. The imperfect can correspond to the English simple past tense, but also to structures such as used to and would and even the past progressive. L’imparfait is used to tell stories and report on past actions, mostly in written contexts.
Imperfect indicative - French Conjugation
www.frenchconjugation.com › tenses › imperfectThe imperfect indicative or imparfait de l'indicatif in french, is a simple tense. This tense is not formed with an auxiliary. The stem of the imperfect indicative is always invariant for a single verb. It is derived from the first person plural of the present indicative (except for the verb être): The endings of this tense are for any of the three groups always: -ais, -ais, -ait, -ions, -iez, -aient pronounced /ɛ, ɛ, ɛ, jɔ̃, je, ɛ/ .