imperf

I have; imperf. if I had; perf. if I have had; pluperf. if I had had; first fut. if I shall or will have; sec.fut. if I shall have had.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

In the present and the past it is used, but only when the action embraces a certain length of time, otherwise the simple form "I buy," "I sold" _ (imperf. indic.) _ must be used, as --

Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano

-- Conjugated, Indic. mood, pres. tense, he is punished; imperf. tense, he was punished; perf. tense, he has been punished; and so on.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

Gothic _sprauto_, we have in Icelandic _spretta_, imperf. _spratt_,

Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850 Various

Christianum dogma populare, Augustin. opus imperf. c.

The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement. 1789-1850 1870

This elegant use of the imperf.subj. with subject pronoun inverted (= _quand même_ and the conditional) is generally confined to the auxiliaries, or pseudo-auxiliaries, such as _savoir_, _pouvoir_, _falloir_, etc. In the third person sing. however, where the verb-forms are less unwieldly, other verbs may be so used: it is a matter of euphony.

Esther Jean Baptiste Racine 1669

to put down, lodge, deposit (s.th.); (usually only in imperf. and imp.) to let, leave; to leave off, stop, cease; to give up, omit, skip and that's just for stem I.

What do I "know"? 2008

_lovest_; imperf. tense, thou _lovedst_; and so on, through the whole.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

_love_, imperf. tense, I _loved_; perf. tense, I _have loved_; and so on, through every mood and tense.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

Chrysostom [* The quotation is from an anonymous author's unfinished work (Opus imperf.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas