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Imperfect: Verbs of the First Group

Imperfect: Verbs of the Second Group

Imperfect: With roots battre, tenir, courir, and cueillir

Imperfect: With the roots mettre, venir, cevoir, and the verbs conjugating like rendre

Imperfect: Ending in eindre, tendre, prendre, and crire

Imperfect: Conjugating like: sentir, connaître, construire, and faire

Imperfect: Aller, avoir, croire, être, fuir, voir and verbs conjugating like pouvoir

The Imperfect Tense
The Verbs of the Third Group
Lesson 2: The verbs with the roots: mettre, venir, -cevoir, and the verbs conjugating like rendre

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Catherine:	Et si nous en venions à un thème qui intéresse beaucoup de gens : le père Noël !
Guillaume:	Le père Noël n’est pas français, c’est connu, Catherine !
Catherine:	Tu veux dire qu’il vit en Laponie ?
Guillaume:	Non, qu’il a été inventé par les Anglo-Saxons.
Catherine:	Pas exactement. De nombreuses légendes qui se transmettaient autrefois en France de génération en génération, correspondaient pour ainsi dire à celle du père Noël.

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