imperfect tense

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English - English
A tense used to describe a past action that is ongoing, incomplete or continuous, or coincident with another action

“I was watching tennis” is an example of the imperfect tense.

imp
impf
past imperfect tense
A grammatical tense which expresses the past as an action which was still going on at the point in time described, say someone "was ...ing" something, as opposed to the already accomplished counterpart past perfect tense (where the action took place even further in the past)
imperfect tense

    Hyphenation

    im·per·fect tense

    Turkish pronunciation

    împırfîkt tens

    Pronunciation

    /əmˈpərfəkt ˈtens/ /ɪmˈpɜrfɪkt ˈtɛns/
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