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Guardavamo le videocassette insieme.

Guardavamo le videocassette insieme.
We used to watch the videocassettes together.
From Lesson 106:The imperfect tense of regular verbs (-avo, -evo, -ivo)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Guardavamo le videocassette insieme.

Why does the sentence use the imperfetto tense (guardavamo) here instead of the passato prossimo?
The imperfetto is used to describe ongoing, repeated, or habitual actions in the past. Because the English translation says "We used to watch" (which describes a past habit), the imperfetto guardavamo is the correct choice rather than the passato prossimo (abbiamo guardato).
How is the imperfetto form guardavamo built from the verb guardare?
To form the imperfetto for a regular -are verb like guardare (to watch), you drop the -re to get the stem guarda-, and then add the imperfetto ending for "we" (noi), which is -vamo. So, guarda- + -vamo = guardavamo.
Why isn't the word noi (we) in the Italian sentence?
In Italian, the verb ending usually tells you who is doing the action. The -vamo ending in guardavamo can only refer to "we" (noi). The subject pronoun is dropped unless you really want to emphasize it, like saying "We used to watch them, not you."
What is the singular form of le videocassette?
The singular form is la videocassetta. Because it is a feminine noun ending in -a, the plural is formed by changing the article la to le and the ending -a to -e, resulting in le videocassette.

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