Imperfect Tense

So, let's pretend that you want to talk about ONE TIME that you exercised.

You want to use the PRETERITE.

And you might use key words, like a specific day.

AYER, yo salté a la cuerda.

(saltar is conjugated into the preterite tense)

But, what if you want to talk about how you exercised LOTS of times.

Instead of saying "yesterday", we might indicate that it was "many times".

Muchas veces, yo saltaba a la cuerda.

(saltar is now in the imperfect)

That is a jump ahead. (no pun intended)

Let's turn our focus back to how to form the imperfect.

Bottom line: figure out your subject and conjugate like we always have.

Notice that the "yo" form and the "he/she" form is the same.