The French Imperfect Tense?

Question

I never knew this, but supposedly there is a sentence or letters you can use to remember the imperfect tense? Ha! I am from France and I never heard of it but it was one of my weaker subjects when I was learning it... I am curious as to what it is...

Answer 1

I've never come across a mnemonic for learning the imperfect tense - ais,ais,ait, ions,iez,aient is pretty straightforward.

There is one for learning which verbs take the auxiliary etre:

"DR.MRS.VANDERTRAMPP". Because all of these verbs are also verbs of movement : Devenir, Revenir, Mourir, Rentrer, Sortir, etc.