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past imperfect tense

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English

Syllables
past im-per-fec-t tense
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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)

Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

past imperfect tenses (plural)

Synonyms

past imperfect preterimperfect imperfect

Questions

What does past imperfect tense mean?
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)

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