Today has been a simple day. I had Ukrainian at 8 AM, pretty early for a Saturday morning. I'm also having it at 8 AM tomorrow morning, to make up for Thursday (which was really nice of her). Today's lesson was good. We learned imperfect verbs vs. perfect verbs. It's kind of a weird concept. It's like, if the action you're talking about is something you've finished or done many times, then you use imperfect. If the action is something you haven't finished or only done once, then it's perfect. This rule only applies in past tense.
But what about a verb that doesn't have a clear beginning or ending? For example, "I went to the store." Should 'went' be imperfect if you got to the store but didn't come back? Is the action of going to the store complete when you get there, or when you get back? Or... well actually it's probably dependent on whether you went once or many times. If you're trying to imply many times, you use imperfect. If you mean you only went one specific time, you use perfect. At least that is what I think it is. I might be mixed up. In any case, it is confusing and I don't totally get it. Also there's no rule for how you change each verb from imperfect to perfect. You have to individually memorize each one. That's my homework for tomorrow. Let's see if that actually happens.
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