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Dos idiomas, dos culturas - los Nuyoricans: imperfect for habitual actions

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I can distinguish between the present and imperfect tenses in the life of a Nuyorican.

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The imperfect tense is used to talk about habitual actions in the past or to describe how things were in the past. The regular imperfect endings for singular -ar verbs are -aba, -abas and -aba. The regular imperfect endings for singular -er/-ir verbs are -ía, -ías and -ía. 'Ser' is irregular in the imperfect tense. Use 'era' or 'eras' to mean was/were + trait.

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