Imparfait
Dates
Négation
Objets du passé
Potpourri
100

Comment dit-on "When I was little" en français?

Quand j'étais petit(e)

100

Dites: 1886

mille huit-cent quatre-vingt-six

100

Comment dit-on "No one liked the cheese"?

Personne n'a aimé / n'aimait le fromage

100

Comment dit-on "cell phone"?

un portable

100

How do you find the stem to conjugate a verb in imperfect?

The 'nous' form of the verb in present tense -ons

200

Comment dit-on "My father used to eat pizza every Friday" en français?

Mon père mangeait de la pizza le vendredi

200

Dites: 2025

deux mille vingt-cinq

200

Comment dit-on "Nothing was impossible"?

Rien n'était impossible

200

Comment dit-on "Newspaper"?

un journal

200

Comment dit-on "Girls were playing hopscotch"

Les filles jouaient à la marelle 

300

Comment dit-on "You all used to study history"

Vous étudiiez l'histoire

300

Dites: 1776

mille sept-cent soixante-seize
300

Comment dit-on "We never used to go to the movies"?

On n'allait jamais au cinéma /

Nous n'allions jamais au cinéma

300

Comment dit-on "landline phone"?

le téléphone fixe  

300

Comment dit-on "People (in general) never used to write with pencil"? 

On n'écrivait jamais avec un crayon.

400

Comment dit-on "I often used to go to the park"?

J'allais souvent au parc

400

Dites: 1999

mille neuf-cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuf

400

Comment dit-on "He didn't talk to anyone"?

Il n'a parlé à personne

400

Comment dit-on "Walkman"?

un baladeur / walkman

400

What is an English translation of the imparfait "tu finissais"?

You used to finish, you were finishing

500

Comment dit-on "Sara was finishing her homework"?

Sara finissait ses devoirs

500

Dites: 1945

mille neuf-cent quarante-cinq

500

Comment dit-on "She had no idea"

Elle n'avait aucune idée 

500

Comment dit-on "dishwasher"?

le lave-vaisselle

500

In what circumstances is the imparfait used?

To talk about the way things used to be, to describe how things were in the past, to describe something that happened over and over again in the past

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