Practice Imperfect Tense Quiz

Visitábamos is the conjugation for ‘nosotros’ (my brother and I). Imperfecto allows you to talk about your past routines and habits which in this case would be visiting our grandparents.

In Spanish, the imperfect tense is used to describe a person’s past feelings, likes and dislikes. Cuando is one of the most common time markers for the imperfect tense.

One of the most common uses of the imperfect tense is to talk about time in the past tense. We use eran for most hours of the day with the exception of 1:00 and other nouns that indicate time such as mediodía or medianoche.

When mentioning your age in the past, you need to use the imperfect tense since this information is more contextual. Remember that in Spanish we use ‘tener’ for discussing age. Tenían is the correct conjugation for the person ‘ellos’ (Lucas and Esteban). 

The imperfect tense allows you to talk about your past habits and routines such as going to school. Iba is the conjugation for the third person singular.

Antes is one of the most common time markers for the imperfect tense. So, if a sentence starts with this word it’s very likely that you’ll need to conjugate your verbs in the imperfect tense. Additionally, this example is providing contextual information about how things were in the past.

In Spanish, imperfecto is also used to talk about actions that you meant to do but, for some reason, you couldn’t perform. Usually, in these cases, we use verbs such as ir, querer or desear. ‘Iba’ is the conjugation for ‘yo’.

The imperfect provides details about the circumstances that surrounded an action. In this example, Matt not wearing his glasses is just contextual information, therefore, llevar needs to be conjugated in the imperfect tense.

In order to describe people in the past, we need to use the imperfect tense. Éramos is the conjugated form of ‘ser’ for ‘nosotras’ (Lucy and I).

We use imperfecto to talk about actions whose ending and beginning are not clear. In this case, we have a rough idea when this behavior was taking place, but we don’t know exactly when it started or stopped. Caían is the imperfect conjugation for ‘ustedes’.

In Spanish, we use the imperfect tense to say the time in the past. Although most hours use the plural conjugation, when preceded by the preposition ‘a’ you need to use ‘era’.

Imperfect is a tense that allows you to describe things in the past. In this case, the number of german students in your class. When talking about existence, haber always works in the singular form. As a result, the correct conjugation is había.

We use the imperfect tense to talk about past habits and routines. In this case, eating chocolate was a routine that Tom did every Sunday. Comía is the conjugation for the third singular person.

Past routines and habits require you to use the imperfect tense since they’re activities that you don’t know when they started or finished. Se levantaba is the correct reflexive conjugation in the imperfect tense.