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The perfect tense is for actions that happened once in the past (e.g. I did) whereas the imperfect is for repeated actions (e.g. I was doing). So for something you used to do , you would use the imperfect...

The perfect tense (passé composé) is used to depict a single past action that has been completed. Specific time phrases such as 'last weekend' (le weekend dernier), 'last week' (la semaine dernière) and '...

Recently I went into town in order to do some shopping. I also saw a lot of graffiti and litter. I think that it is awful because the environment is very important. There were also a lot of homeless peopl...

The passé composé is used to describe completed or repeated actions that were done in the past. It is translated into English as either the past simple tense (e.g. I ate) or the present perfect tense (e.g...

Firstly; the perfect tense is a compound formation, meaning there are two parts to its formation. This includes the auxiliary verb, namely 'avoir' or 'être' plus the past participle which is the conjugate...