Spanish Grammar Test: Past Imperfect Tense

Imperfect Tense of Regular -AR Verbs

Useful Grammar

The past imperfect tense is the easiest to form and the most regular of all tenses in Spanish. The conjugation of the typical first conjugation verb hablar follows:

Whereas the simple past tense (el pretérito), describes a single and completed past action, the past imperfect tense is used to describe a repeated or habitual action in the past. It is equivalent in this usage to the English used to.