🇧🇷 Portuguese · Imperfect

Learn Portuguese imperfect with music

The imperfect describes habits, age, time, and background in the past—paired constantly with preterite in real speech.

When to use imperfect

Childhood habits (quando eu era criança…)

Descriptions and weather in the past

Ongoing action when something else happened

Practice tips

  • Story-tell with imperfect scene-setting + preterite events.

  • Loop ser and estar imperfect forms.

  • Keep daily contact with one tense — five minutes or an hour of background listening.

Key verbs to drill

ser estar ir ter
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