English-Finnish translations for past imperfect tense

• imperfekti

Definition of past imperfect tense

• A grammatical tense which expresses the past as an action which was still going on at the point in time described, say someone "was ...ing" something, as opposed to the already accomplished counterpart past perfect tense (where the action took place even further in the past

Related words

• past simple
• simple past
• simple past tense
• imperfective past
• impasto
• impaste