Italian GCSE
Past tenses
What Past tenses means in Italian GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Past tenses
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Reference: AQA
The imperfect describes ongoing past actions and habitual past events, while the passato prossimo interrupts it with a completed, specific action.
Topics that use Past tenses
- Verbs (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Auxiliary verbs
- Auxiliary verbs in the imperfect
- Compound tenses
- Conditional perfect
- Descriptive language
- Everyday conversational phrases
- Expressing desires and wishes
- Formal and informal registers
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