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Imperfect tense

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VOCABULARY

The imperfect tense is easy to remember because most French verbs already use the regular imperfect stem formed from the nous form of the present tense, minus -ons, and then add the imperfect endings (-ais, -ais, -ait, -ions, -iez, -aient). The only exception to this rule is être:

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