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--- user:zeman:interset:verb-forms [2008/04/05 00:02]
zeman
+++ user:zeman:interset:verb-forms [2008/04/05 00:16]
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 | 3rd | //cantaba// | //cantaban// |
-Bulgarian example: imperfect is opposed to aorist. Imperfect forms end in //-ше//, //-ах//, //-аха//, //-ях// or //-яха//.
+Bulgarian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_verbs#Past_Imperfect_Tense_.28Imperfectum.29): Past Imperfect Tense //(Минало несвършено време)// is used to talk about a temporary situation that existed at or around a particular time in the past. It also expresses past actions that were frequent, repeated, permanent or always true. Its most common use is in story telling to provide a background to other actions which are usually expressed with verbs in the past aorist. In this use it means that the action had begun and was in progress when the other action(s) happened, we don't know whether it stopped or not.
+Both imperfective and perfective verbs have past imperfect tense. They are conjugated in the same way.
+Verbs form the past imperfect tense with the following endings. Example: //чете// (to read):
+| Person | Number |
+| | Singular | Plural |
+| 1st | //четях// | //четяхме// |
+| 2nd | //четеше// | //четяхте// |
+| 3rd | //четеше// | //четяха// |
 DZ Interset decoding: ''tense = "past"; subtense = "imp";''

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