imparfait — meaning in English
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English meaning
- imperfect adj Not perfect; having flaws.
Senses
imparfait is used for these senses in English:
- imperfect (grammar) A tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous.
- past imperfect tense A grammatical tense which expresses the past as an action which was still going on at the point in time described, say someone "was ...ing" something, as opposed to the already accomplished counterpart past perfect tense (where the action took place even further in the past)
- present imperfect A grammatical tense which presents the action in the present as continuous, not yet over
- simple past (grammar) A tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by the inflection of a single word, without any auxiliary verb such as be or have.
imperfect — full definition
- adj Not perfect; having flaws.
- noun A verb tense describing a past action that was ongoing or repeated.