The imperfect

• • Use it when you're writing
• • It's past tense
• • 'simple past' = only needs ONE VERB in its past tense form
• • The 'ICH' and 'ER/SIE/ES/MAN' endings are always identical
• There are regular endings with 'DU', 'WIR', 'IHR', 'SIE' and 'SIE'

  (-e, -st, -t, and -en)