Conseguir imperfect conjugation
Conseguir in the imperfect: conseguía, conseguías, conseguía, conseguíamos, conseguíais, conseguían.
- to get; to obtain; to manage to
- stem-changing (e→i)
- Participle: conseguido
- Gerund: consiguiendo
Imperfect imperfecto
| yo | conseguía |
|---|---|
| tú | conseguías |
| él/ella/usted | conseguía |
| nosotros | conseguíamos |
| vosotros | conseguíais |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes | conseguían |
How to use conseguir in the imperfect
The imperfect is regular: conseguía, conseguías, conseguíamos, conseguían. It describes repeated success or failure in the past (antes conseguía todo más barato) and, in the negative, an ongoing struggle: no conseguía concentrarme. The preterite, by contrast, tells whether the effort finally worked out on a particular occasion. Because the stress falls on the ending, there is no stem change and no spelling change in any form of this tense. The nosotros form conseguíamos describes what a group used to be able to get.
Examples
Por más que lo intentaba, no conseguía abrir el archivo.
No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't open the file.
Antes conseguíamos vuelos baratos con facilidad.
We used to get cheap flights easily.
En el pueblo no se conseguían muchos productos importados.
You couldn't get many imported products in the town.
Quick check: conseguir in the imperfect
More conseguir tenses
- All conseguir tenses
- Conseguir present
- Conseguir preterite
- Conseguir future
- Conseguir conditional
- Conseguir present subjunctive
- Conseguir affirmative commands
Other verbs in the imperfect
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