Greek 101: Learning an Ancient Language Season 1 Episode 9 Verbs in the Imperfect Tense

Greek has several ways of talking about the past. Focus on the imperfect tense, which describes an action that was ongoing in the past-for example, “The Achaeans were dishonoring the gods.” The imperfect is built by adding a vowel prefix, called an augment, to the verb base, plus secondary endings.