Meaning:/ Meaning: *“L'imperfetto nell'indicativo expresses l'aspetto imperfettivo indicating situazioni in corso di svolgimento (Ieri alle cinque andavo in città, when...), abittuali (In that period we were sped to trovarli.) o situazioni descritive di sfondo (Paolo lived a Pomegranate.)". / The imperfect in the call expresses an incomplete aspect indicating situations in the course of its development (Yesterday at five I was going to town, when...) usual situations (At that time we were going to meet them a lot.) or descriptive situations (Paolo lived in Rome.).
* Definition taken from the Dizionario Italiano Sabatini – Coletti edits dalla Casa Editrice Giunti.
L'imperfetto con verbi regolari/ Imperfect with regular verbs
D: Come formare questo tense verbale?/ Q: How to form this tense?
A: Prendi il verb senza le desinenze di infinitive (-ARE, -ERE, -IRE) and aggiungi le desinenze di imperfetto./ R: Take the verb without the infinitive ending (-ARE, -ERE, -IRE) and add the imperfect endings.
Vedi degli esempi: / See some examples:
| persone of discord | FENCE | AVERE | FINIRE |
| Io | fencedGrandfather | Aveve | endivo |
| You | fencedavi | Avevi | endI saw |
| lei/lui/law | fencedava | AvEve | endva |
| No I | fencedlove | Avevamo | endivamo |
| go | fencedavatar | Avevade | endivate |
| parrot | fencedadvance | Avevasion | endIvan |
Le desinenze del tempo imperfetto sono in distant nella tabella/ The imperfect tense endings are in Spotlight on the table.
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Vedi delle frasi:/ See some sentences:
1) corral aiuto per mettere the moto la macchina, when i know arrivato./ she was looking for help to start the car, when you arrived.
2) Giulia you she surrounded di mattina. / Giulia was looking for you in the morning.
3) From bambino, Giuseppe she ave paura di andare dal dentist. / As a little boy, Giuseppe was afraid to go to the dental office.
4) ending i competed when she called. / We were finishing the exercises at home, when she (he) called.
5) When mean figlia she lived to Bari, she ave I gave cani. / When my daughter lived in Bari, she had some dogs.
6) Mentre il professore di letteratura Italiana parlava, finivo il compito d’ inglese./ While the Italian literature teacher was speaking, I finished the English exercise.
Isabela Reis de Paula
Brazil School Collaborator
Graduated in Languages with Qualification in Portuguese and Italian
By the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ
Italian - Brazil School
Would you like to reference this text in a school or academic work? Look:
PAULA, Isabela Reis de. "L’ imperfectto dell’ indicative"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/italiano/l-imperfetto-dell-indicativo.htm. Accessed on June 29, 2021.
