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Quand j'étais petit : the imperfect tense with regular verbs ('used to')

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I can describe what I and others used to do when we were younger using the imperfect tense of regular verbs.

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The imperfect tense is used to describe what you 'used to' do when you were younger/in the past. For imperfect of regular verbs remove -ons from 'nous' present tense and add:-ais, -ais, -ait, -ions, -iez, -aient Most final consonants are silent, and this is important in imperfect verb endings e.g. -ais, -ait

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