to" conveys past habitual action, as in I used to ski. The simple past tense can be used for situations presented as ongoing, such as The rain beat down continuously through the night.

The progressive and imperfective contrast in stative verbs. Stative verbs, such as know, do not use the progressive (*I was knowing Ada), while in many languages with an imperfective (for instance, French), they do (je connaissais Ada).

Indo-Aryan languages

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