What was your favorite toy when you were a child? What did you use to do for fun? This lesson focuses on the imperfect indicative in Spanish, a tense we use to talk about childhood experiences and routines or descriptions in the past. ...
As one of Spanish'stwo simple past tenses, theimperfectindicativehas aconjugationthat is essential to learn. It is the verb form used most often to describe conditions as they existed in the past, to provide background to events, and to describe habitual actions. UsingEstudiaras an Example Con...
This is apast tense. In Spanish we have four and this is one of them. We use it a lot and it is very important to learn it well. Do you want to know how this tense is formed and how it is used? ¡Vamos allá! Imperfect indicative past tense: Form ...
There are two forms of the past in Spanish. The imperfect past and the preterite past. These lessons focus on the imperfect, also known as the imperfect indicative, which is used to describe actions or situations that were incomplete or in progress at the point of time in the past that ...
In Spanish we have differenttypes of future in perfect and imperfect tenses: On the one hand, we have the periphrasisGo to + infinitive and the future imperfect, which now we will see their differences. On the other hand, we also have thefuture compound indicative,also known asperfect future...
The oblique forms of the simple tenses of the indicative (present, imperfect and aorist) are formed as follows: the [??]-marker of the past participle is affixed to the imperfect stem, thus forming the imperfect participle ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]) or to the aorist stem, forming...
(2008) Interface vulnerability and knowledge of the subjunctive/indicative distinction with negated epistemic predicates in L2 Spanish.EUROSLA Yearbook, 81, 135–163. Larsen-Freeman, D (2004) Reflections on FFC research and second language acquisition. InB. VanPatten,J. Williams,S. Rott, &...
Even if its referential capacities have somewhat altered, it remainsthe same single linguistic sign. This paper is based on a modal theory which differs the traditional contrastbetween indicative an subjunctive.Luquet, Gilles
(a) the terms perfect and imperfect 'tense' should be done away with by replacing them with past tense and present tense respectively; and (b) that the consecutive and habitual should be regarded as aspects of the indicative, ... LJ Louwrens - 《South African Journal of African Languages》...