Todos los días salía temprano y volvía tarde a casa.

In sentences where the Imperfect Tense has this use, we may find these keywords:Ĭuando yo era niño, mi padre trabajaba en una fábrica. Things that happened often, things that were going on… are also background information. Habitual actions and ongoing situations in the past Nuestra casa era grande y tenía tres plantas.ĭe niños, nosotros éramos un poco ingenuos. It makes sense, because descriptions are background information: It tends to answer the question: «What was going on?»ĭescriptions of people (physical or psychological), places and things in the past We use the Imperfect Tense to express background information in the past. Have you noticed that in the tables above? 🙂 Uses of the Imperfect Tense Regular verbs in -ar, as well as the irregulars «ser» and «ir», have an accent mark only for «nosotros».Regular verbs in -er and -ir, as well as the irregular «ver», have accent marks for all persons.Yesterday there was a very funny guy at the party. The conjugation of «hay» in Imperfect is había, which means «there was, there were».īoth «there was» and «there were» translate as había, never as «habían»:Īyer había un tío muy gracioso en la fiesta. There are only 3 irregular verbs in Imperfect Tense: «ser», «ir», and «ver»: The following table shows the conjugations of regular verbs in -ar (example «jugar»), -er (example «comer») and -ir (example «vivir»), with the endings highlighted in green: Conjugation of regular verbs in Imperfect TenseĬonjugation of regular verbs in Imperfect Tense.

Hay in past tense spanish