The imperfect is the easiest, most regular tense in Spanish. Notice that -er and -ir verbs have the same endings (all with accents):
| comenzaba | pedía | vivía |
| comenzabas | pedías | vivías |
| comenzaba | pedía | vivía |
| comenzábamos | pedíamos | vivíamos |
| comenzabais | pedíais | vivíais |
| comenzaban | pedían | vivían |
There are only three verbs with irregular forms in the imperfect: ir, ser, and ver. Even so, they are not very difficult:
| iba | era | veía |
| ibas | eras | veías |
| iba | era | veía |
| íbamos | éramos | veíamos |
| ibais | erais | veíais |
| iban | eran | veían |