Check out the table of regular imperfect endings below. Start by marking “Past Imperfect” as Want to Read: Error rating book. I expected this book to be a fun, insubstantial bit of fluff. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. There are some interesting comparisons made between generations as a result but the most satisfying aspect is the the opportunity taken to return to the previous social group members for in-depth discussions on their lives and loves over the intervening 40 year period. I have been so smitten with Julian Fellows' Downton Abbey that I had to follow up with some of his other works while waiting out Season 3. To form the imperfect for French regular verbs, take the first person plural present tense, the "nous" (we) form, subtract the -ons suffix, and add the appropriate ending (the forms for être (to be), whose "nous" form does not end in -ons, are irregular; they start with ét- but have the same endings): 2. Physical and emotional descriptions: time, weather, age, feelings, 3. English actor, novelist, screenwriter, and director. The plot is unflagging, the characters, memorable. But be forewarned - it's not quite so glamorous in the second half of the 20th century as it was in the first half. In verbs ended in -aer, -oer, -aír and -oír, the first and second person of the plural show the presence of a diaeresis. The book is very readable and I didn't even notice until almost the end of the book that I didn't know the narrator's name, which means that the not naming of the narrator was not a pretentious literary move, but the best way to tell the story. The plot is rather simple - a dying millionaire asks his once-friend, now almost-enemy to research a list of women from their shared past, to find out which one has a child by him, as he suspects on the basis of a letter. If you just couldn't get enough of Downton Abbey and wonder what would have happened to the English aristocracy if the show had covered the 1960's - present day, "Past Imperfect" could be just the thing for you. To form the "was doing" imperfect, take the infinitive ending in ഉക (uka), for example ഓടുക (ōṭuka) - to run - and add the ending - യായിരുന്നു (yāyirunnu). I found myself constantly comparing what I know of my parents'. I loved it. A natural social climber, Damien seems intent on penetrating the upper-class sanctum and soon has plenty of affluent debutantes falling at his feet, but which is put paid to by *something terrible* which happens one dinner while the whole jolly set vacation in Portugal. The characters are frequently somewhat grotesque, but this serves to make them both intriguing and eay to distinguish from each other - useful since there are a lot of people in this story. There are only three verbs with irregular conjugations in the imperfect: ir, ser, and ver. Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes (Baron Fellowes of West Stafford), DL. I enjoyed pretty much every page, even though the writing is just a wee bit overwrought when it came to the protagonist and Serena. The term "imperfect" in English refers to forms much more commonly called past progressive or past continuous (e.g. “Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing...”. I only say that because the theme of the lost world of the English upper class, post-war, is driven home. The imperfect is used to give descriptions in the past, especially those that set the scene in terms of the senses. English has no general imperfective and expresses it in different ways. Something so terrible that conveniently nobody can speak of it directly, so we’re forced to hang on to the bitter end to find out what it is [spoiler alert: he doesn't go postal with a WWII service revolver OR reveal he's slept with everyone's parents OR take a dump on HRH Princess Dagmar of Moravia's bed in full view of the assembled company, as much as you wish he would by that stage]. The characters are frequently somewhat grotesque, but this serves to make them both intriguing and eay to distinguish from each other - useful since there are a lot of people in this story. The story of an author looking back on his past making annoying comments throughout.