imperfect tense

English Thesaurus

1. a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going (noun.linkdef)

hypernym	:	tense,
definition	:	a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	present progressive, present progressive tense,
definition	:	a tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance (noun.linkdef)

hyponym	:	past progressive, past progressive tense,
definition	:	a progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past (noun.linkdef)

hyponym	:	future progressive, future progressive tense,
definition	:	a progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future (noun.linkdef)