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Imperfect Tense Worksheet
Imperfect Tense Worksheet
The imperfect tense is used to talk about the past. You should focus first on the imperfect tense of some
very common – and therefore very useful – verbs (haben, sein and können).
These verbs are all irregular. First learn the ich form and then just the endings for the other forms.
Note that two of the forms you’ll use most (ich and er / sie / es) are identical in this tense!
Other useful imperfect tense forms are: ich musste (I had to), ich wollte (I wanted to), ich gab (I gave).
Tip!
Remember how to form the imperfect tense of regular verbs:
Remove -en from the infinitive and add -t
Then add the endings:
ich machte
er / sie / es machte
wir machten
sie machten
The ‘you’ words (du / ihr / Sie) are not included here, as the imperfect is not generally used in speech.
1 Revising the imperfect tense: match up these imperfect verbs with their English meanings.
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Unit 2
2 Complete each sentence with the verb given in brackets in the imperfect tense.
3 Complete each sentence with the verb given in brackets in the imperfect tense.
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