Transcript PROMENADES - Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy
Point de d épart
You ’ ve learned how the
passé composé
can express past actions. Now you ’ ll learn another past tense, the
imparfait
(
imperfect
).
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The
imparfait
can be translated several ways into English.
Americans often use would when the imperfect is required.
Je portais toujours ma robe préférée à lécole.
I would wear my favorite dress to school I used to wear my favorite dress to school.
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The
imparfait
is used to talk about actions that took place repeatedly or habitually during an unspecified period of time. © 2010 Vista Higher Learning, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The
imparfait
is a simple tense, which means that it does not require an auxiliary verb. To form the
imparfait
, drop the
-ons
ending from the
nous
form of the present tense and replace it with these endings.
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The
imparfait
is used for description, often with the verb
être ,
which is irregular in this tense.
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Verbs whose infinitives end in
-ger
endings of the
imparfait
except in the forms. Verbs whose infinitives end in
nous -cer
and
vous
change
c
to
ç
before all endings except in the add an
nous
and
e
before all
vous
forms.
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Note that the
nous
in
-ier
and
vous
contain a double i
forms of infinitives ending in the
imparfait
.
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Note the imperfect forms of these expressions. © 2010 Vista Higher Learning, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Essayez!
Choisissez la réponse correcte pour compléter les phrases.
1.
Muriel (louait /louais) un appartement en ville.
2.
Rodrigue (partageait / partagiez) une chambre avec un autre étudiant.
3.
Nous (payait /payions) notre loyer une fois par mois.
4.
Il y (avait /était) des balcons au premier étage.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Il (neigeait /fallait) mettre le chauffage (
heat
) quand il (faisaient /faisait) froid. Qu ’ est-ce que tu (faisait / faisais) dans le couloir? Vous (aimiez /aimaient) beaucoup le quartier? Nous (étaient /étions) trois dans le petit studio. © 2010 Vista Higher Learning, Inc. All rights reserved.
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