Forms: was talking, were going.
Questions and negatives are made with the auxiliary (was or were), e.g.:
| Was she talking? Where were they going? She wasn't talking. They weren't going. |
We use this tense to refer to events in past time that are considered as incomplete, e.g.:
| My father was dying. (El meu pare es moria.) Compare: My father died in 1989. (El meu pare va morir l'any 1989.) |
| One day, when Mary was playing tennis, she broke her racket. (Un dia, quan la Mary jugava a tennis, va trencar la raqueta.) Compare: Last year Mary played tennis almost every weekend. (L'any passat la Mary jugava a tennis gairebé cada cap de setmana.) |
| At 10 o'clock it wasn't raining. (A les deu no plovia.) |
| Was it raining when you went out? (Plovia quan vas sortir?) Compare: Last Saturday it rained all morning. (Dissabte passat va ploure tot el matí.) |
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