The French imperfect tenseListening practice - perfect or imperfect tense?

The imperfect tense describes an ongoing action in the past or something that used to happen. Get to grips with using the imperfect tense and check your understanding with a quiz.

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Listening practice - perfect or imperfect tense?

Kemar talks about legends

Le seigneur du fromage - The cheese lord

Perfect or imperfect?

Fill in the blanks with the correct tense of the verb given in brackets. Then watch the video again to check your answers.

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Il __________ (être) une fois un cheval, qui __________ (manger) des rats.

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Il __________ (vouloir) demander en mariage la princesse du village, qui __________ (être) très belle.

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Il __________ (avoir) besoin d’une bague en fromage, mais il n’y __________ (avoir) plus de fromage dans le village.

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Le cheval __________ (demander) la princesse en mariage et elle __________ (dire) « oui ! »