Perder imperfect conjugation
Perder in the imperfect: perdía, perdías, perdía, perdíamos, perdíais, perdían.
- to lose; to miss
- stem-changing (e→ie)
- Participle: perdido
- Gerund: perdiendo
Imperfect imperfecto
| yo | perdía |
|---|---|
| tú | perdías |
| él/ella/usted | perdía |
| nosotros | perdíamos |
| vosotros | perdíais |
| ellos/ellas/ustedes | perdían |
How to use perder in the imperfect
The imperfect is regular: perdía, perdías, perdíamos, perdían. It describes repeated losses in the past (de niño perdía todo) or a situation in progress at a given moment: perdíamos dos a cero en el medio tiempo. It is also the tense for something that was being lost little by little over a period of time. Remember the accent on the í in every form.
Examples
De joven perdía la paciencia con mucha facilidad.
When I was young I lost my patience very easily.
En el medio tiempo perdíamos dos a cero.
At halftime we were down two to nothing.
La empresa perdía clientes cada mes y nadie sabía por qué.
The company was losing clients every month and nobody knew why.
Quick check: perder in the imperfect
More perder tenses
- All perder tenses
- Perder present
- Perder preterite
- Perder future
- Perder conditional
- Perder present subjunctive
- Perder affirmative commands
Other verbs in the imperfect
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