scendevamo

Scendevamo is the first-person plural imperfect indicative form of the Italian verb scendere, meaning “to descend” or “to go down.” In usage, it translates to “we were going down” or “we used to descend,” and it is employed in narrative or descriptive past contexts to convey ongoing action, duration, or habitual past activity. The imperfect tense in Italian generally describes background events, settings, or repeated actions in the past.

Morphology and conjugation: scendere belongs to the regular -ere verbs in its imperfect forms. The noi form is scendevamo, with the full conjugation for the imperfect being: io scendevo, tu scendevi, lui/lei scendeva, noi scendevamo, voi scendevate, loro scendevano. The imperfect is used without auxiliary verbs, unlike compound tenses where essere or avere might appear.

Usage notes: Scendevamo can describe physical movement downwards (for example, descending stairs or a slope) or metaphorical descents (such as descending into a situation or mood). It commonly appears in narrative prose and lyric writing to set a scene, indicate time passages, or reflect on past routines. Its meaning remains close to the literal sense of moving downward, while its context often supplies whether the action was continuous, habitual, or describptive.

Related forms and alternatives: Other imperfect forms of scendere include scendevi (tu), scendeva (lui/lei), scendevamo (noi), scendevate (voi), scendevano (loro), and present forms like scendo, scendi, scende, scendiamo, scendete, scendono. The term is a standard example of Italian imperfect tense in everyday language and literature.