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Make it descriptive, including relevant context, but also to the point. This way you improve your chances of getting a more relevant and specific answer.

cosmic dune
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Conditional is for saying things like
'I would', 'I could', etc...

soft radish
honest barn
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I ment imparfait

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@soft radish @cosmic dune my bad

cosmic dune
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Essentially a more advanced way of speaking in the past tense

honest barn
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So if I said j’allais au cinéma would that mean that I go to the cinema often

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Or that it’s frequent

cosmic dune
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'I used to go to the cinema'

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is essentially what that'd be translated to

honest barn
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Not I’m every case though

soft radish
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passé composé is for what is an event at a specific point in time
imparfait is for states, elongated actions, or habits
anything that can't be described as a single point on the timeline

cosmic dune
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That's a better explanation thanks

soft radish
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it's not just for habits

honest barn
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States?

soft radish
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for instance you could say
"j'allais au cinéma quand je suis tombé"
in that case you just went to the theater, but while you were doing it, you fell.
And because something happened during that action, it has to use imperfect because it can't be a single point in time

soft radish
# honest barn States?

for instance
j'étais malade => I was sick
il n'avait pas envie => He didn't feel like it

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they're not actions, they're just describing the state of something/someone at one point

honest barn
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Righty

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Could you do another sentence?

soft radish
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la semaine dernière, j'étais à New York => Last week, I was in New York
la semaine dernière, j'ai été à New York => Last week, I went to New York

honest barn
soft radish