Acciones para un mundo mejor: 'ir' imperfect plural persons
I can use plural forms of the imperfect tense in the context of protests and social movements.
Acciones para un mundo mejor: 'ir' imperfect plural persons
I can use plural forms of the imperfect tense in the context of protests and social movements.
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Key learning points
- ábamos, -abais and -aban are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person plural endings of -ar verbs in the imperfect tense.
- ‘ir’ is an irregular verb in the imperfect tense.
- -íbamos, -ibais and -iban are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person plural forms of ‘ir’ in the imperfect tense.
- Spanish adverbs ending in -mente (e.g. rápidamente) correspond to English adverbs ending in -ly (e.g. quickly).
- To form adverbs ending in -mente, add this ending to the feminine form of the adjective (e.g. rápida - rápidamente).
Keywords
Imperfect - verb tense used to talk about something that used to happen repeatedly
Adverb - word used to describe adjectives and verbs
-mente - suffix commonly used in Spanish adverbs, meaning -ly
Common misconception
Accents are present in several forms of 'ir' and -ar verbs in the imperfect tense.
Accents are only present in the 1st person singular (we) form of 'ir' (íbamos) and -ar verbs (-ábamos) in the imperfect tense.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
to try, trying
to lend, lending
to identify, identifying
to trick, tricking
to ring, ringing
to own, owning
people
serious
historical
boss, manager (f)
half past
only
Exit quiz
6 Questions
to act, acting
lack, shortage
probably
fortunately
quickly
totally
to contribute, contributing
threat
to deny, refuse
ally
knowledge
currently
we used to go
you (pl) used to go
they used to go
we used to deny
you (pl) used to deny
they used to deny