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Montreal - habitual and one-off past events: imperfect and perfect

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I can use the imperfect and perfect tenses to talk about one-off events and events that happened regularly.

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Adjectives ending -al in English often end in -al or more commonly -el in French. The feminine form is -elle. Use the perfect tense for specific one-off past events and the imperfect for regularly repeated past events. Use the present tense of avoir/être and a past participle to form the perfect tense. Use the present tense of the 'nous' form, remove -ons and add -ais/ait for the singular imperfect tense. The verb shows if the action used to happen all the time or was a single, completed event; time phrases give detail.

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