contaminabas

Contaminabas is a Spanish word. It is the imperfect indicative form of the verb contaminar, which means "to contaminate" or "to pollute". The word specifically refers to the second-person singular form, meaning "you were contaminating" or "you used to contaminate". This conjugation is used in Spanish to describe an ongoing or habitual action in the past. For example, "Tú contaminabas el aire con tus hábitos" translates to "You were polluting the air with your habits" or "You used to pollute the air with your habits." The imperfect tense in Spanish is used for descriptions, background information, and repeated or continuous actions in the past, distinguishing it from the preterite tense which describes completed actions. Therefore, contaminabas evokes a sense of past pollution or contamination that was happening over a period of time or was a regular occurrence.