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Imperfect and preterite verbs are used for scenarios when you're describing the past and having to differ between one-time past events and things you did frequently in the past. They are very helpful when talking about your childhood, for example

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Irregular imperfect verbs are somewhat rare, and do not follow the conjugation pattern that the verb would lead you to believe. For example, what do you think "era" is conjugated from? It's SER. How??

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Imperfect verbs have different conjugation patterns than preterite verbs, and unlike preterite verbs, imperfect verbs are usually regular.

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Irregular verbs do not follow under the basic pattern of conjugation. Many of the verbs that are preterite are irregular and do not follow the basic conjugation pattern.

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There is a specific way to conjugate past verbs, and there are some verbs that, when conjugated, do not change from there root except for the ending, which stays as a pattern throughout.

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Imperfect tense is another way to conjugate verbs so that they show a past event. Imperfect, however, represents events that were a habit, like if you used to eat pizza every day, but then you stopped. That would be imperfect.

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Preterite tense is a specific ways to conjugate verbs so that they represent something that happened in the past. Preterite is for specific events that happened, like a one-time event. If you said that you went to the beach once, you would use preterite.