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A grammatical tense which expresses the past as an action which was still going on at the point in time described, say someone was ...ing something, as opposed to the already accomplished counterpart past perfect tense (where the action took place even further in the past)

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past imperfect tense

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past imperfect tense

Noun

uncountable usually

A grammatical tense which expresses the past as an action which was still going on at the point in time described, say someone "was ...ing" something, as opposed to the already accomplished counterpart past perfect tense (where the action took place even further in the past)

Japanese Meaning

過去進行形：過去のある時点で進行中だった動作や状態を表す活用形（例：英語では「was/were＋～ing」の形）