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- Year 9
Montreal - habitual and one-off past events: imperfect and perfect
I can use the imperfect and perfect tenses to talk about one-off events and events that happened regularly.
- Year 9
Montreal - habitual and one-off past events: imperfect and perfect
I can use the imperfect and perfect tenses to talk about one-off events and events that happened regularly.
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Key learning points
- Adjectives ending -al in English often end in -al or more commonly -el in French. The feminine form is -elle.
- Use the perfect tense for specific one-off past events and the imperfect for regularly repeated past events.
- Use the present tense of avoir/être and a past participle to form the perfect tense.
- Use the present tense of the 'nous' form, remove -ons and add -ais/ait for the singular imperfect tense.
- The verb shows if the action used to happen all the time or was a single, completed event; time phrases give detail.
Keywords
Imperfect tense - tense used to describe how things were or used to be in the past
Common misconception
You can use a time phrase to show whether you mean a completed action in the past or a regular past event/activity.
In French, the verb alone already shows whether you mean a completed action in the past (use the formation rule for the perfect tense) or a regular past event/activity (use the formation rule for the imperfect tense). Time phrases can also be added.
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