Think of the imparfait as the past tense of calm, beauty, and thought: it paints portraits and scenes, thoughts and memories it does not busy itself with actions. The only verb for which the stem for the imparfait is not obtained in that way is the verb être (to be). The endings of the conjugated forms of the verb are as follows: -ais, -ais, -ait, -ions, -iez, -aient. This is true for both regular and irregular verbs. The stem is obtained by dropping the -ons ending of the nous form of the present tense of the verb. Le plus-que-parfait is a simple tense in the past the conjugated verb consists of a stem and an ending.
0 kommentar(er)
