What is the correct imperfect form of comer for nosotros?

What is the correct imperfect form of comer for nosotros?

• A. Comíamos
• B. Coméis
• C. Comimos
• D. Comía

Answer: (A)

In Spanish, the imperfect for -er verbs uses the ending -íamos with the nosotros form. So for comer, you take the stem com- and add -íamos, giving comíamos. This expresses an ongoing or habitual past action involving "we"—for example, “we were eating” or “we used to eat.” The other forms don’t fit the imperfect nosotros pattern: coméis is the present-tense vosotros form (you all eat now), comimos is the preterite (we ate, a completed past action), and comía is an imperfect form but for singular subjects (yo, él, or ella), not for nosotros.

In Spanish, the imperfect for -er verbs uses the ending -íamos with the nosotros form. So for comer, you take the stem com- and add -íamos, giving comíamos. This expresses an ongoing or habitual past action involving "we"—for example, “we were eating” or “we used to eat.”

The other forms don’t fit the imperfect nosotros pattern: coméis is the present-tense vosotros form (you all eat now), comimos is the preterite (we ate, a completed past action), and comía is an imperfect form but for singular subjects (yo, él, or ella), not for nosotros.