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The German imperfect tense: form and uses made clear

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In this post you'll find all you need to know about how to form and use the German imperfect tense or, in German, das Präteritum or das Imperfekt. The imperfect is one of the three tenses used to talk about the past in German. The others are the perfect and the pluperfect (the "past in the past"). In English, the German imperfective tense is also sometimes called the simple … [Read more...]

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