Съпоставителен преглед на функционирането на имперфекта в българския и френския език

The common and different uses of the imperfect tense in Bulgarian and French are analysed on the morpho-syntactic level: concrete, generalized, habitual, iterative and qualificative. The modal uses of the imperfect are also discussed: optative, the imperfect instead of the futur, the imperfect instead of the présent, the imparfait instead of the futur imparfait instead of futur hypothétique simple, and imparfait hypocoristique which has no formal equivalent in Bulgarian.