Lesson summary
The key points to remember, for revision.
- 1Imparfait: stem of nous (present) + -ais, -ais, -ait, -ions, -iez, -aient; être → j’étais.
- 2Imparfait = background: description, weather, feelings, habits, action in progress.
- 3Passé composé = events: precise, finished actions (soudain, un jour, hier).
- 4Je marchais (background) quand j’ai vu (event).
Key vocabulary
| d’habitude | usually |
| soudain | suddenly |
| quand j’étais petit | when I was little |
| pendant que | while |
| un souvenir | a memory |