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[vocal granite]

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[sullen oriole]

The imperfect tense is used for old habits.
"Je sortais."

You can add "avant" or "j'avais l'habitude de" to make it clearer.
"Avant, je sortais."
"J'avais l'habitude de sortir."

https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/imperfect/

[green quail]

note that unlike with "used to," with the imperfect there's not quite the same intrinsic implication that you don't do it now, unless you add more context.

for example, just saying "je mangeais du pain" in no way implies that you don't eat bread now

whereas if you just said "i used to eat bread" with no additional context we would assume you don't eat bread anymore

[median basin]

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