past imperfect tense in English

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "past imperfect tenses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "past imperfect tense (usually uncountable, plural past imperfect tenses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A grammatical tense which expresses the past as an action which was still going on at the point in time described, say someone \"was ...ing\" something, as opposed to the already accomplished counterpart past perfect tense (where the action took place even further in the past)"
      ],
      "id": "en-past_imperfect_tense-en-noun-PleI9qga",
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        [
          "past",
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        [
          "past perfect tense",
          "past perfect tense"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "grammatical tense",
          "word": "onvoltooid verleden tijd (O.V.T.)"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "grammatical tense",
          "word": "imperfekti"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "grammatical tense",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "l'imparfait"
        },
        {
          "code": "pa",
          "lang": "Punjabi",
          "roman": "apūran bhūtkāl",
          "sense": "grammatical tense",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ਅਪੂਰਨ ਭੂਤਕਾਲ"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "grammatical tense",
          "word": "thì quá khứ chưa hoàn thành"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "past imperfect tense"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "past imperfect tenses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "past imperfect tense (usually uncountable, plural past imperfect tenses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A grammatical tense which expresses the past as an action which was still going on at the point in time described, say someone \"was ...ing\" something, as opposed to the already accomplished counterpart past perfect tense (where the action took place even further in the past)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "past",
          "past"
        ],
        [
          "past perfect tense",
          "past perfect tense"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "grammatical tense",
      "word": "onvoltooid verleden tijd (O.V.T.)"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "grammatical tense",
      "word": "imperfekti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "grammatical tense",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "l'imparfait"
    },
    {
      "code": "pa",
      "lang": "Punjabi",
      "roman": "apūran bhūtkāl",
      "sense": "grammatical tense",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ਅਪੂਰਨ ਭੂਤਕਾਲ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "grammatical tense",
      "word": "thì quá khứ chưa hoàn thành"
    }
  ],
  "word": "past imperfect tense"
}

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"past imperfect tense" meaning in English

Noun