conjugation.imperfect.regular
Regular imperfect: hablaba, comía, vivía
-ar verbs take -aba, -abas, -aba, -ábamos, -abais, -aban; -er/-ir verbs take -ía, -ías, -ía, -íamos, -íais, -ían. The imperfect describes background, habits, and ongoing past situations.
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Erklärung
Two sets of endings cover everything: -aba for -ar verbs (hablaba, hablábamos) and -ía for -er and -ir verbs (comía, vivíamos). Only ser, ir, and ver are irregular.
First and third person singular are identical (yo hablaba / él hablaba), so Spanish often keeps the subject pronoun here for clarity.
Use it for what was ongoing, habitual, or descriptive in the past: age, time, weather, states, and scene-setting — while the preterite carries the events that happened against that background.
Beispiele
I was working at a bank when I met him.
Region: global
As a kid, I ate empanadas every Sunday.
Region: global
It was ten o'clock and it was raining.
Region: global