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The imperfect is a verb form, found in various languages, which combines past tense (reference to a past time) and imperfective aspect (reference to a continuing or repeated event or state). It can therefore have meanings similar to the English "was walking" or "used to walk." It contrasts with preterite forms, which refer to a single completed event in the past.
Traditionally, the imperfect of languages such as Latin and French is referred to as one of the tenses, although in fact it encodes aspectual information in addition to tense (time reference). It may be more precisely called past imperfective.
When used in relation to English, "imperfect" refers to forms much more commonly called past progressive or past continuous (like was doing or were doing). These are combinations of past tense with specifically continuous or progressive aspect.
The term can take on specific conventional meanings in the grammars of particular languages. In German, Imperfekt was used to refer to the simply conjugated past tense (to contrast with the Perfekt or compound past form), but the term Präteritum (preterite) is now preferred, since the form does not carry any implication of imperfective aspect.
Sunrise and Sunset
Each day is a miracle see
And sometimes within them
Both joy and pain it will bring
It?s time to realize
It can be paradise
And it will come to you
It is all true
In times of happiness
Even not we are blessed
So in my lil song I sing this
To you
Life is imperfect
And full of insanity
Love is imperfect
But it is what I believe in
Life is imperfect
But it is the joy it brings
On those days when you?re feeling alone
I just want u to know
That it will be alright.
Sometimes and some nights
Well that day rain will bring
But storms pass into calmness
And then we?ll know everything
It?s time to realize
It can be paradise
And it will come to you
It is all true
In times of happiness
Even not we are blessed
So in my lil song I sing this
To you
Life is imperfect
And full of insanity
Love is imperfect
But it is what I believe in
Life is imperfect
But it is the joy it brings
And those days when you?re feeling alone
I just want u to know