V Except for IRREGULAR verbs, you will find this characteristic consonant in all imperfect verb endings!

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V Except for IRREGULAR verbs, you will find this characteristic consonant in all imperfect verb endings!

Perfect finished historyPerfect = completed,finished – the passato prossimo (a newspaper headline). It is history….its all done and over with. It will NOT happen again. Nor was it repeated. Imperfect incompletenot finishedImperfect then meansincomplete or not finished – limperfetto (telling a story, a fairy tale, describing people, weather, places, things)

whose duration cannot be specifiedThe imperfect is used to express an action that took place in the past but whose duration cannot be specified. This means that neither the beginning nor ending is specified.

HABITS Tells what USED TO HAPPEN or what was happening in the past. Giocavo al calcio da ragazzino.

Description Description Description in the past: people, places, things, time, weather La ragazza si vestiva di rosso.

viveva La nonna viveva nella foresta.

era La macchina era gialla.

Faceva Cera Faceva bel tempo! Cera sole!

Era Era mezzanotte meno venti.

Extremely easy to conjugate! –VRemember the characteristic –V in the ending!!!

Formation ALL verbs form the imperfect the same way in the same way! identical The endings are identical for all 3 conjugations (-are, -ere,-ire)

Formation: Endings Io vo Tu vi Lui, lei, Lei va Noi vamo Voi vate Loro vano

But each conjugation keeps its characteristic vowel (-a,-e, or -i) -are verbs parlAvo parlAvi parlAva parlAvamo parlAvate parlAvano

-ere verbs vendEvo vendEvi vendEva vendEvamo vendEvate vendEvano

-ire verbs partIvo partIvi partIva partIvamo partIvate partIvano

ero eri era eravamo eravate erano

facevo facevi faceva facevamo facevate facevano

volevo volevi voleva volevamo volevate volevano

bevevo bevevi beveva bevevamo bevevate bevevano

dicevo dicevi diceva dicevamo dicevate dicevano

Expressions of time indicating the imperfetto Da bambinoDa bambino …as a child da ragazzoda ragazzo … as a young boy Da giovaneDa giovane … as a teen Di solitoDi solito ….usually FrequentementeFrequentemente …. Frequently GeneralmenteGeneralmente ….generally

More expressions of time indicating the imperfetto on Mondaysil lunedì, etc … on Mondays whilementre… while every day, week, month, yearogni giorno/ settimana/mese/anno …. every day, week, month, year regularlyregolarmente … regularly

More expressions of time indicating the imperfetto oftenspesso … often every day, monthtutti i giorni/ i mesi … every day, month alwayssempre.. always once upon a timeCera una volta… once upon a time