Imparfait
Comment dit-on "When I was little" en français?
Quand j'étais petit(e)
Dites: 1886
mille huit-cent quatre-vingt-six
Comment dit-on "No one liked the cheese"?
Personne n'a aimé / n'aimait le fromage
Comment dit-on "cell phone"?
un portable
How do you find the stem to conjugate a verb in imperfect?
The 'nous' form of the verb in present tense -ons
Comment dit-on "My father used to eat pizza every Friday" en français?
Mon père mangeait de la pizza le vendredi
Dites: 2025
deux mille vingt-cinq
Comment dit-on "Nothing was impossible"?
Rien n'était impossible
Comment dit-on "Newspaper"?
un journal
Comment dit-on "Girls were playing hopscotch"
Les filles jouaient à la marelle
Comment dit-on "You all used to study history"
Vous étudiiez l'histoire
Dites: 1776
Comment dit-on "We never used to go to the movies"?
On n'allait jamais au cinéma /
Nous n'allions jamais au cinéma
Comment dit-on "landline phone"?
le téléphone fixe
Comment dit-on "People (in general) never used to write with pencil"?
On n'écrivait jamais avec un crayon.
Comment dit-on "I often used to go to the park"?
J'allais souvent au parc
Dites: 1999
mille neuf-cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuf
Comment dit-on "He didn't talk to anyone"?
Il n'a parlé à personne
Comment dit-on "Walkman"?
un baladeur / walkman
What is an English translation of the imparfait "tu finissais"?
You used to finish, you were finishing
Comment dit-on "Sara was finishing her homework"?
Sara finissait ses devoirs
Dites: 1945
mille neuf-cent quarante-cinq
Comment dit-on "She had no idea"
Elle n'avait aucune idée
Comment dit-on "dishwasher"?
le lave-vaisselle
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