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The imperfetto (imperfect tense) is the second essential Italian past tense. While the passato prossimo describes completed actions, the imperfetto describes ongoing, habitual, or background situations in the past. It paints the scene: what was happening, what things were like, what you used to do.
The great news is that the imperfetto is one of the most regular tenses in Italian — almost all verbs follow the same predictable patterns, with very few exceptions.
The imperfetto is used for:
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