Ongoing action in the past with Italian's imperfetto

We've covered two perfective past tense forms, il passato prossimo and il passato remoto, which means we can now describe a completed action with some finesse. But we still haven't thought about how to describe an imperfective action — something that was ongoing in the past. Today, we'll fix that by looking at the imperfetto.

Il imperfetto
When describing an action that was ongoing at some time in the past, you need
to use an imperfect verb tense, and that is what the imperfetto is. Note... continue reading at Fluent Every Year