caminabais

Caminabais is the second-person plural imperfect indicative form of the Spanish verb caminar, used with the pronoun vosotros. It expresses an ongoing or habitual action in the past, corresponding to “you all were walking” or “you all used to walk.” The form is common in Peninsular Spanish and other varieties that preserve the vosotros paradigm; in much of Latin American Spanish, where vosotros is rarely used, alternative past tenses are typically employed.

Morphology and formation: Caminabais is derived from the infinitive caminar by removing -ar and adding the imperfect ending -abais to the stem camina-. Like other -ar verbs in the imperfect, its endings are -aba, -abas, -aba, -ábamos, -abais, -aban. The spelling does not require an accent mark in standard usage.

Usage and examples: Caminabais appears in narrative or descriptive past contexts involving a group addressed as vosotros. Examples include: “Durante la caminata vespertina, caminabais por el parque sin prisa,” meaning you all were walking through the park without hurry. Another example: “Cuando llegasteis a la estación, caminabais ya por la acera principal.” These sentences illustrate habitual or continuous past action rather than a single completed moment.

Notes: Caminabais is primarily a grammatical form rather than a standalone word with a separate lexical meaning. Its use depends on discourse that employs vosotros; in regions or registers that omit vosotros, forms like caminaban or other tenses are preferred.